a further reference to Lycurgus in Sophocles' Antigone in the Chorus's ode after Antigone is taken away (960 in the Greek text). In Homer's Iliad, an older source than Aeschylus, Lycurgus's punishment for his disrespect towards the gods, particularly Dionysus, is blindness inflicted by Zeus followed not long after by death. According to Sophocles, the frenzied Lycurgus mocked at Dionysus and as punishment was shut in "a prison of stone" until his madness went away. The author of the Geoponica states that Dionysus, fleeing from Lycurgus, tied him up with vines and dove into the sea; Lycurgus shed a tear then, which transformed into cabbage. This was supposedly why grapevines and cabbages had a mutual dislike toward on another, and could not thrive together, as vines withered in the fields whenever a cabbage was growing nearby. See also Lycurgus Cup References Sources Mythological kings of Thrace Kings in Greek mythology Suicides in Greek mythology Greek mythology of Thrace Thraco-Macedonian mythology Dionysus in mythology Metamorphoses into plants in Greek mythology Mythological blind people