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Lycurgus Stoner House, also known as the Edna Brown House, is a historic home located in Washington Township, Putnam County, Indiana. It was built in...

Richard M. Hazelett house, Alfred Hirt House, McKim Observatory, F.P. Nelson house, Old Greencastle Historic District, Lycurgus Stoner House, and William C...

on the site of a simple racecourse by the Athenian statesman Lykourgos (Lycurgus) c. 400 BC, primarily for the Panathenaic Games. It was rebuilt in marble...

contained 1,071 housing units. The Putnam County Bridge No. 159 and Lycurgus Stoner House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. According...

delivered to Lycurgus, the semi-legendary Spartan lawgiver (fl. 8th century BC). According to the report by Herodotus (Histories A.65, 2–4), Lycurgus visited...

Lycurgus Stoner House...

king, commander at the Battle of Thermopylae Lycurgus (quasi-mythical, century unclear) — lawgiver Lycurgus (king of Sparta) (3rd century BC) — abolished...

most ancient sources place the life of Lycurgus. Indeed, the Spartans ascribed their subsequent success to Lycurgus, who instituted his reforms at a time...

Quarter feature mosaic decorations with mythological scenes, including Lycurgus of Thrace and Ambrosia in an upper-story mosaic, as well as Athena and...

became her godly form "Her hair's ambrosia breathed a holy fragrance." Lycurgus, king of Thrace, forbade the cult of Dionysus, whom he drove from Thrace...

reached its fullest extent in the fourth century BC under the epistates of Lycurgus when it would have had a capacity of up to 25,000, and was in continuous...

proper path. This lack of attention to detail is contrasted with the uniform stone highways that generally existed near major urban centers, typically built...

and Virgil, the philosopher Socrates, and the leaders Lucius Verus and Lycurgus which once graced the exedra whose political message was one of democracy...

people was also encouraged by Lycurgus, though from a motive other than that which actuated the practice (Plutarch, Lycurgus, XXIX). The recognized license...

daughter of the "nocturnal" king Nycteus of Thebes or, in the Cypria, of Lycurgus, but for Homer her site is purely Boeotian. She was the mother of Amphion...

and quality could be extremely high, as in the silver Warren Cup, glass Lycurgus Cup, and large cameos like the Gemma Augustea, Gonzaga Cameo and the "Great...

also took oaths that they fulfilled. Walter Burkert has shown that since Lycurgus of Athens (d. 324 BCE), who held that "it is the oath which holds democracy...

Harmonia into serpents. Only Tiresias is spared. In the Iliad, when King Lycurgus of Thrace heard that Dionysus was in his kingdom, he imprisoned Dionysus'...

development. It can be carved, though with considerable difficulty; the Roman Lycurgus Cup is all but unique. There are various ways of moulding glass: hot casting...

Arcadian king who was transformed by Zeus into a wolf Lycurgus of Arcadia, a king of Arcadia Lycurgus, a king of Nemea, and/or a priest of Zeus at Nemea...