Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Lycurgus.
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Lycurgus of Thrace
Edonian king who drove Dionysus' nurses with an ox-goad — Homer's first persecutor of the god, blinded afterward.
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Iliad
Iliad 6 — Diomedes recalls Lycurgus' hubris — the epic warning not to chase Dionysus into Thetis' sea.
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The Bacchae
Euripides
Euripides' Theban climax keeps the Lycurgus pattern — the king who insults the god and pays with his house.