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Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 5.50
nan  Since we have set forth the facts concerning Samothrace, we shall now, in accordance with our plan, discuss Naxos. This island was first called Strongylê and its first settlers were men from Thrace, the reasons for their coming being somewhat as follows., The myth relates that two sons, Butes and Lycurgus, were born to Boreas, but not by the same mother; and Butes, who was the younger, formed a plot against his brother, and on being discovered he received no punishment from Lycurgus beyond that he was ordered by Lycurgus to gather ships and, together with his accomplices in the plot, to seek out another land in which to make his home., Consequently Butes, together with the Thracians who were implicated with him, set forth, and making his way through the islands of the Cyclades he seized the island of Strongylê, where he made his home and proceeded to plunder many of those who sailed past the island. And since they had no women they sailed here and there and seized them from the land., Now some of the islands of the Cyclades had no inhabitants whatsoever and others were sparsely settled; consequently they sailed further, and having been repulsed once from Euboea, they sailed to Thessaly, where Butes and his companions, upon landing, came upon the female devotees of Dionysus as they were celebrating the orgies of the god near Drius, as it is called, in Achaea Phthiotis., As Butes and his companions rushed at the women, these threw away the sacred objects, and some of them fled for safety to the sea, and others to the mountain called Dius; but Coronis, the myth continues, was seized by Butes and forced to lie with him. And she, in anger at the seizure and at the insolent treatment she had received, called upon Dionysus to lend her his aid. And the god struck Butes with madness, because of which he lost his mind and, throwing himself into a well, met his death., But the rest of the Thracians seized some of the other women, the most renowned of whom were Iphimedeia, the wife of Aloeus, and Pancratis, her daughter, and taking these women along with them, they sailed off to Strongylê. And in place of Butes the Thracians made Agassamenus king of the island, and to him they united in marriage Pancratis, the daughter of Aloeus, who was a woman of surpassing beauty;, for, before their choice fell on Agassamenus, the most renowned among their leaders, Sicelus and Hecetorus, had quarrelled over Pancratis and had slain each other. And Agassamenus appointed one of his friends his lieutenant and united Iphimedeia to him in marriage.
nan 1.  Since we have set forth the facts concerning Samothrace, we shall now, in accordance with our plan, discuss Naxos. This island was first called Strongylê and its first settlers were men from Thrace, the reasons for their coming being somewhat as follows.,2.  The myth relates that two sons, Butes and Lycurgus, were born to Boreas, but not by the same mother; and Butes, who was the younger, formed a plot against his brother, and on being discovered he received no punishment from Lycurgus beyond that he was ordered by Lycurgus to gather ships and, together with his accomplices in the plot, to seek out another land in which to make his home.,3.  Consequently Butes, together with the Thracians who were implicated with him, set forth, and making his way through the islands of the Cyclades he seized the island of Strongylê, where he made his home and proceeded to plunder many of those who sailed past the island. And since they had no women they sailed here and there and seized them from the land.,4.  Now some of the islands of the Cyclades had no inhabitants whatsoever and others were sparsely settled; consequently they sailed further, and having been repulsed once from Euboea, they sailed to Thessaly, where Butes and his companions, upon landing, came upon the female devotees of Dionysus as they were celebrating the orgies of the god near Drius, as it is called, in Achaea Phthiotis.,5.  As Butes and his companions rushed at the women, these threw away the sacred objects, and some of them fled for safety to the sea, and others to the mountain called Dius; but Coronis, the myth continues, was seized by Butes and forced to lie with him. And she, in anger at the seizure and at the insolent treatment she had received, called upon Dionysus to lend her his aid. And the god struck Butes with madness, because of which he lost his mind and, throwing himself into a well, met his death.,6.  But the rest of the Thracians seized some of the other women, the most renowned of whom were Iphimedeia, the wife of Aloeus, and Pancratis, her daughter, and taking these women along with them, they sailed off to Strongylê. And in place of Butes the Thracians made Agassamenus king of the island, and to him they united in marriage Pancratis, the daughter of Aloeus, who was a woman of surpassing beauty;,7.  for, before their choice fell on Agassamenus, the most renowned among their leaders, Sicelus and Hecetorus, had quarrelled over Pancratis and had slain each other. And Agassamenus appointed one of his friends his lieutenant and united Iphimedeia to him in marriage.

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1. Homer, Iliad, 2.550-2.551, 6.130-6.140 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE) 2.550. /and there the youths of the Athenians, as the years roll on in their courses, seek to win his favour with sacrifices of bulls and rams;—these again had as leader Menestheus, son of Peteos. Like unto him was none other man upon the face of the earth for the marshalling of chariots and of warriors that bear the shield. 2.551. /and there the youths of the Athenians, as the years roll on in their courses, seek to win his favour with sacrifices of bulls and rams;—these again had as leader Menestheus, son of Peteos. Like unto him was none other man upon the face of the earth for the marshalling of chariots and of warriors that bear the shield. 6.130. /Nay, for even the son of Dryas, mighty Lycurgus, lived not long, seeing that he strove with heavenly gods—he that on a time drave down over the sacred mount of Nysa the nursing mothers of mad Dionysus; and they all let fall to the ground their wands, smitten with an ox-goad by man-slaying Lycurgus. 6.131. /Nay, for even the son of Dryas, mighty Lycurgus, lived not long, seeing that he strove with heavenly gods—he that on a time drave down over the sacred mount of Nysa the nursing mothers of mad Dionysus; and they all let fall to the ground their wands, smitten with an ox-goad by man-slaying Lycurgus. 6.132. /Nay, for even the son of Dryas, mighty Lycurgus, lived not long, seeing that he strove with heavenly gods—he that on a time drave down over the sacred mount of Nysa the nursing mothers of mad Dionysus; and they all let fall to the ground their wands, smitten with an ox-goad by man-slaying Lycurgus. 6.133. /Nay, for even the son of Dryas, mighty Lycurgus, lived not long, seeing that he strove with heavenly gods—he that on a time drave down over the sacred mount of Nysa the nursing mothers of mad Dionysus; and they all let fall to the ground their wands, smitten with an ox-goad by man-slaying Lycurgus. 6.134. /Nay, for even the son of Dryas, mighty Lycurgus, lived not long, seeing that he strove with heavenly gods—he that on a time drave down over the sacred mount of Nysa the nursing mothers of mad Dionysus; and they all let fall to the ground their wands, smitten with an ox-goad by man-slaying Lycurgus. 6.135. /But Dionysus fled, and plunged beneath the wave of the sea, and Thetis received him in her bosom, filled with dread, for mighty terror gat hold of him at the man's threatenings. Then against Lycurgus did the gods that live at ease wax wroth, and the son of Cronos made him blind; 6.136. /But Dionysus fled, and plunged beneath the wave of the sea, and Thetis received him in her bosom, filled with dread, for mighty terror gat hold of him at the man's threatenings. Then against Lycurgus did the gods that live at ease wax wroth, and the son of Cronos made him blind; 6.137. /But Dionysus fled, and plunged beneath the wave of the sea, and Thetis received him in her bosom, filled with dread, for mighty terror gat hold of him at the man's threatenings. Then against Lycurgus did the gods that live at ease wax wroth, and the son of Cronos made him blind; 6.138. /But Dionysus fled, and plunged beneath the wave of the sea, and Thetis received him in her bosom, filled with dread, for mighty terror gat hold of him at the man's threatenings. Then against Lycurgus did the gods that live at ease wax wroth, and the son of Cronos made him blind; 6.139. /But Dionysus fled, and plunged beneath the wave of the sea, and Thetis received him in her bosom, filled with dread, for mighty terror gat hold of him at the man's threatenings. Then against Lycurgus did the gods that live at ease wax wroth, and the son of Cronos made him blind; 6.140. /and he lived not for long, seeing that he was hated of all the immortal gods. So would not I be minded to fight against the blessed gods. But if thou art of men, who eat the fruit of the field, draw nigh, that thou mayest the sooner enter the toils of destruction. Then spake to him the glorious son of Hippolochus:
2. Homer, Odyssey, 16.305 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
3. Herodotus, Histories, 1.59 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE) 1.59. Now of these two peoples, Croesus learned that the Attic was held in subjection and divided into factions by Pisistratus, son of Hippocrates, who at that time was sovereign over the Athenians. This Hippocrates was still a private man when a great marvel happened to him when he was at Olympia to see the games: when he had offered the sacrifice, the vessels, standing there full of meat and water, boiled without fire until they boiled over. ,Chilon the Lacedaemonian, who happened to be there and who saw this marvel, advised Hippocrates not to take to his house a wife who could bear children, but if he had one already, then to send her away, and if he had a son, to disown him. ,Hippocrates refused to follow the advice of Chilon; and afterward there was born to him this Pisistratus, who, when there was a feud between the Athenians of the coast under Megacles son of Alcmeon and the Athenians of the plain under Lycurgus son of Aristolaides, raised up a third faction, as he coveted the sovereign power. He collected partisans and pretended to champion the uplanders, and the following was his plan. ,Wounding himself and his mules, he drove his wagon into the marketplace, with a story that he had escaped from his enemies, who would have killed him (so he said) as he was driving into the country. So he implored the people to give him a guard: and indeed he had won a reputation in his command of the army against the Megarians, when he had taken Nisaea and performed other great exploits. ,Taken in, the Athenian people gave him a guard of chosen citizens, whom Pisistratus made clubmen instead of spearmen: for the retinue that followed him carried wooden clubs. ,These rose with Pisistratus and took the Acropolis; and Pisistratus ruled the Athenians, disturbing in no way the order of offices nor changing the laws, but governing the city according to its established constitution and arranging all things fairly and well.
4. Sophocles, Antigone, 956-965, 955 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
5. Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, 13.4-13.5 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
6. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 3.65.5, 3.65.7, 5.52 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 3.65.5.  Consequently he sailed across secretly to his army, and then Lycurgus, they say, falling upon the Maenads in the city known as Nysium, slew them all, but Dionysus, bringing his forces over, conquered the Thracians in a battle, and taking Lycurgus alive put out his eyes and inflicted upon him every kind of outrage, and then crucified him. 3.65.7.  But some of the poets, one of whom is Antimachus, state that Lycurgus was king, not of Thrace, but of Arabia, and that the attack upon Dionysus and the Bacchantes was made at the Nysa which is in Arabia. However this may be, Dionysus, they say, punished the impious but treated all other men honourably, and then made his return journey from India to Thebes upon an elephant. 5.52. 1.  The myth which the Naxians have to relate about Dionysus is like this: He was reared, they say, in their country, and for this reason the island has been most dear to him and is called by some Dionysias.,2.  For according to the myth which has been handed down to us, Zeus, on the occasion when Semelê had been slain by his lightning before the time for bearing the child, took the babe and sewed it up within his thigh, and when the appointed time came for its birth, wishing to keep the matter concealed from Hera, he took the babe from his thigh in what is now Naxos and gave it to the Nymphs of the island, Philia, Coronis, and Cleidê, to be reared. The reason Zeus slew Semelê with his lightning before she could give birth to her child was his desire that the babe should be born, not of a mortal woman but of two immortals, and thus should be immortal from its very birth.,3.  And because of the kindness which the inhabitants of Naxos had shown to Dionysus in connection with his rearing they received marks of his gratitude; for the island increased in prosperity and fitted out notable naval forces, and the Naxians were the first to withdraw from the naval forces of Xerxes and to aid in the defeat at sea which the barbarian suffered, and they participated with distinction in the battle of Plataeae. Also the wine of the island possesses an excellence which is peculiarly its own and offers proof of the friendship which the god entertains for the island.
7. Epigraphy, Seg, 33.147

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
ambrosia (the nymph)	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 26
aparchê	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 658
apollo	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 65, 66, 67, 77
arabia	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 184
ares	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 65
ariadne	Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 31
athena, polias	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 646
bacchants, maenads	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 64, 65
bassarids	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 77
boutes	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 3, 26; Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 646, 658
butes	Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 31
cannibal, cannibalism	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 77
charops	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 64, 65, 66
child	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 77
cult, cultic acts for specific cults, the corresponding god or place	Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 31
damascus	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 3, 184
dekatê, tax	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 658
delphi	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 3
dionysos, dionysos kemelios/dekemelios	Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 31
dionysos	Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 31
drimios	Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 31
eleusis	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 658
erechtheus	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 646
ethnos	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 646
eumolpidai	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 646, 658
eurynome	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 23, 26
eyes, eyesight, blindness	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 64, 65
fear	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 64
frenzy, mania, madness	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 93
gift	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 23
hades, netherworld	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 77
half-siblings, patrilateral, same-sex	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 646
hellespont	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 3, 64
hephaestus	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 23, 26
hephaistos	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 646
hera	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 23, 26
heracles	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 23
herakles, myth, genealogy	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 658
hero	Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 31
hippolytus	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 77
honey	Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 31
initiation/rite of passage	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 3, 64, 65
iphimedeia ἰφιμήδεια	Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 31
knossos	Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 31
labyrinth, lady of	Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 31
lemnos	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 23
lycurgus	Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 31
lyssa/fury	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 184
mountains	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 93
muses	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 65
mycenaean	Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 31
mysteries	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 658
myth, mythical'	Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 31
naxos, naxian	Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 31
naxos	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 3, 23, 26, 184
nysa, nyseion, nysion	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 64, 65, 184
oeagrus	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 64, 65
orpheus	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 64, 65, 66, 67, 77, 93
palace	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 93
pangaion	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 93, 184
persephone	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 67
perseus	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 3
philaidai	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 658
pholos	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 23
pieros	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 65
poseidon, erechtheus	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 646
punishment	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 66
pylos, pylian	Bernabe et al., Redefining Dionysos (2013) 31
resistence	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 66
rhodope	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 3
sea	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 64, 65, 66
sun	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 66, 67
thebes (in boeotia)	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 3, 184
thebes (in cilicia)	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 3, 184
theseus, and crete	Humphreys, Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis (2018) 658
thessaly	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 3, 26
thetis	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 23, 26
thrace	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 3, 26, 64, 65, 66, 67, 77, 93
zeus	Bednarek, The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond (2021) 65