labotas

Updated: May 6, 2025

By REV. JOSEPH T. DURYEA Scholars generally agree in the judgment that Lycurgus was a real person. According to Herodotus, he was the uncle of King Labotas, of the royal line of Eurysthenes. Others, whom Plutarch follows, describe him as the uncle and guardian of King Charilaus, and therefore in the line of Procles. Either way his mythical lineage would be traced to Hercules.

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