3 Travels to Egypt, Ionia, Lybia, Iberia, and India are first recorded later by Diod. These basic elements as well as other details of Herodotus’s narrative reappear in later versions of Lycurgus’s biography: Lycurgus’s royal ancestry, his guardianship of a young king, and his travels to Crete (after Herodotus, Ephorus FGrH and BNJ 70 F 118 apud Strabo 8.5.5, Ephorus FGrH and BNJ 149.18–19 apud Strabo 10.4.18–19, Arist. With the support of the Delphic oracle, Lycurgus changed “all the laws,” and created the gerousia, the ephorate, and the Spartan military organization (there is mention of the syssitia among the military institutions). He says that Lycurgus had brought the Spartans out of an era of extreme political disorder ( kakonomōtatoi) and into one of good order ( eunomiē), which in turn led to the city’s increased power.
The earliest extant source for Lycurgus is Herodotus ( 1.65.2–66.1).
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