Lycurgus

Lycurgus,ly KUR guhs, was a Spartan legislator. He is said to have set up the government
that made Sparta the great military power of the Greek states (see Sparta). His birth and
death dates and his exact achievements are uncertain. Lycurgus probably lived during the
800's B.C., and was a member of one of the two Spartan royal families. The stories about
him say he traveled to other parts of Greece, and to Asia and Egypt, to study their laws. On
his return, he was asked to develop a new form of government for Sparta.

Lycurgus' greatest achievements were his economic and social reforms. He redistributed the
land and banned money from Sparta, thus supposedly making all citizens equal. But control
of Sparta remained in the hands of only a few of its citizens. In the social system devised by
Lycurgus, strict supervision from birth enforced discipline and military training.

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