Lycurgus (son of Dryas)

Also known as: Lycurgus · Family: Edonian · Role: king · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.5

🌐 Also appears in: The Iliad (as Lycurgus) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Lycurgus)

Life events

• Lycurgus, driven mad by Dionysus, killed his son Dryas with an axe.(Apollodorus, Library 3.5 · 📍 Mount Pangaeum)
  • With: Dionysus Dryas
  • “And in his madness he struck his son Dryas dead with an axe, imagining that he was lopping a branch of a vine”

Apollodorus, Library 3.5

• enemies with Dionysus (Lycurgus insulted and expelled Dionysus.) “But Lycurgus, son of Dryas, was king of the Edonians, who dwell beside the river Strymon, and he was the first who insulted and expelled him.”
• parent: Dryas (Lycurgus is the son of Dryas.) “But Lycurgus, son of Dryas, was king of the Edonians, who dwell beside the river Strymon, and he was the first who insulted and expelled him.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.