Lycurgus Briggins
Character Key Number:
3657
Display Name:
Lycurgus Briggins
Sort Name:
Briggins, Lycurgus
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
In The Reivers Lycurgus is "a pleasant-looking Negro youth of about nineteen" (162), and the grandson of Uncle Parsham Hood. Hood's daughter Mary is his mother; the narrative never mentions the man named Briggins who is his father. A very polite young man, he even refers to Ned as "Mr. McCaslin," confusing Lucius, who obviously assumes he must be speaking about a white man (222).