In Greek mythology, Lycurgus was king of the Edoni in Thrace, son of Dryas, and the archetypal mortal who opposed Dionysus. Homer blinds him by Zeus's decree; later authors drive him mad so that he kills his own son (or wife and son) and is torn by horses or panthers. Distinct from Lycurgus of Nemea, Lycurgus son of Pronax, and the Arcadian king of Tegea.
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I.Enemy of Dionysus
When Dionysus entered his kingdom, Lycurgus imprisoned or chased the god's nurses and Maenads on Nysa with an ox-goad. In the Iliad Zeus blinds him for that insolence and he does not live long. Apollodorus has Dionysus drive him mad so that he mistakes his son Dryas for ivy, mutilates and kills him; the land withers until the Edoni bind Lycurgus and throw him to man-eating horses on Mount Pangaeus.
Hyginus and Latin commentators transmit variants in which he severs his own foot while cutting vines, or kills wife and son after wine-madness and is cast to panthers on Rhodope. Sophocles' Antigone recalls him shut in a stone prison until the frenzy passed. Some versions relocate the tale to Arabia.
II.Homonyms
The atlas id lycurgus-thrace is the Edonian persecutor of Dionysus, not lycurgus-nemea (father of Opheltes), lycurgus-pronax of Argos, or the Tegean Lycurgus of Arcadia.