importance to pleasure and was viewed by him as a negative example. Plutarch also gives some credence to the idea that Lycurgus visited Egypt and was influenced by their way of separating the soldiers from those who did manual labor. Depictions Lycurgus is depicted at the Palais de Justice in Brussels. He is also depicted in several U.S. government buildings because of his legacy as a lawgiver. Lycurgus is one of the 23 lawgivers depicted in marble bas-reliefs in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives in the United States Capitol. The bas-relief was sculpted by Carl Paul Jennewein. Lycurgus is also depicted on the frieze on the south wall of the U.S. Supreme Court building. See also Agoge Great Rhetra Laconic phrase Parallel Lives (Lycurgus vs. Numa) Lycurgus of Sparta 1791 painting attributed to Jacques-Louis David Notes Citations References Descartes, Discours de la méthode (1637) Forrest, W.G. A History of Sparta 950–192 B.C. Norton. New York (1963) Rousseau, Jean-Jacques The Social Contract (1762) Woodhouse, South Carolina English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language (1910) External links Life of Lycurgus at The Internet Classics Archive Plutarch: Life of Lycurgus Xenophon: Spartan Society Pausanias 3.2.3 and 3.2.4 on Lycurgus Pausanias 3.14.8, 3.16.6, 3.16.10, and 3.18.2 on Lycurgus 8th-century BC deaths 8th-century BC Spartans 9th-century BC births Ancient Greek law Ancient legislators Deaths by starvation Government of Sparta Greek mythological heroes People whose existence is disputed Year of birth unknown