Lycurgus of Thrace

Lycurgus of Thrace in Wikipedia

Lycurgus (also Lykurgos, Lykourgos) was a mythological king of the Edoni in Thrace, and the son of Dryas, the "oak".[1] He banned the cult of Dionysus. When Lycurgus heard that Dionysus was in his kingdom, he imprisoned Dionysus' followers, the Maenads. Dionysus fled, taking refuge with Thetis the sea nymph. Dionysus then sent a drought to Thrace. ...

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Lycurgus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A king of Thrace, who, when Bacchus was passing through his country, assailed him so furiously that the god was obliged to take refuge with Thetis. Bacchus avenged himself by driving Lycurgus mad, and the latter thereupon killed his own son Dryas with a blow of an axe, taking him for a vine-branch. The land became, in consequence, sterile; and his ...

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