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  1. mythischer Gesetzgeber von Sparta

Iconography

In the 1791 painting Lycurgus of Sparta by Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier, Lycurgus hands over the kingship to a newly born child. (Source: Wikimedia)
The god Apollo, depicted in this 2nd century statue, is supposed to have divinely sanctioned Lycurgus' laws through the Pythia, his oracle at Delphi. (Source: Wikimedia)
At various times, ancient writers attributed almost all parts of the Spartan constitution – diagrammed above – to Lycurgus' reforms. This unitary reformist moment is not accepted by modern scholars. (Source: Wikimedia)
This archaic bronze statuette in the British Museum depicts a Laconian girl running or dancing in a chiton. (Source: Wikimedia)
Lycurgus depicted in a 1950 bas relief, as one of the 23 great historical lawgivers in the United States Capitol. (Source: Wikimedia)
Statue of Lycurgus at the eighteen-hundreds Law Courts in Brussels, Belgium. (Source: Wikimedia)
Bildnis des Lycurgus, 1642 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis Lykurgos von Sparta, Marie-François Drouhin - 1791/1797 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis Lykurgos von Sparta, Matthäus Merian (der Ältere) - 1642 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

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