Lycurgus

a Spartan lawgiver of about the 9th century B.C. Traditionally he was the author of the rigid social code by which the aristocracy of the ancient Greek city-state Sparta was kept apart from the other inhabitants, and of the system of military education by which from the ages of 6 to 20 the strictest obedience, self-discipline and rigorous training were imposed on all Spartan boys.