Work
Lycurgus
Λυκοῦργος
By Plutarch.
- Kind of writing
- Biography
- Dialect
- Attic/Koine
- Written
- 1st–2nd c. AD
- Length
- 10,792 words analysed
- Vocabulary
- 70% common words
- In the library
- 1 Greek text, 1 English translation
The texts
Each is the collection's own file, read unchanged from the Perseus Digital Library or Open Greek and Latin. The description is theirs too.
- Greek textPlutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Vol. I. Perrin, Bernadotte, editor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1914.
- English translationPlutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Vol. I. Perrin, Bernadotte, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1914.
In The Painted Stoa
Entries that quote or point to this work's Greek.
The people who fed Sparta, and how Sparta kept them downThe helots and the krypteiaSparta's citizens could spend their lives training for war because someone else grew their food.Barefoot, hungry and encouraged to steal: the most famous education in historyGrowing up SpartanEverywhere else in Greece a father decided how to bring up his son.