Leon
Family: Athenian · Role: commander · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 24 · Part 4
In Book 8, Section 24, Leon had recently arrived from Athens with ten ships and sailed to Lesbos with Diomedon, who commanded alongside him. In the same winter, the people dismissed Phrynichus and Scironides from command and appointed Leon and Diomedon to replace them. At Rhodes, the two commanders landed and defeated the Rhodians who opposed them.
At Samos, Leon, Diomedon, Thrasybulus, and Thrasyllus urged the soldiers to resist the oligarchic conspirators. When the Three Hundred attacked the people, they came to their aid; the Samian commons won, punished or banished some of the ringleaders, and restored democratic government. The account describes Leon and Diomedon as “unwilling supporters of the oligarchy” because of their standing with the commons.
Relationship record
Life events
- Phrynichus and Scironides were dismissed from command, and Diomedon and Leon replaced them.(Book 8 · Chapter 25 · Part 3)
- With: Pisander Phrynichus Scironides Diomedon
- “At the same time the people, upon a false accusation of Pisander, dismissed Phrynichus from his post together with his colleague Scironides, sending Diomedon and Leon to replace them in the command of the fleet.”
- Leon and Diomedon defeated the Rhodians who opposed their landing.(Book 8 · Chapter 25 · Part 3 · 📍 Rhodes)
- With: Diomedon
- “after making a descent upon the coast and defeating the Rhodians who appeared in the field against them, withdrew to Chalce”
- Leon, Diomedon, Thrasybulus, and Thrasyllus rallied soldiers to resist the Samian oligarchic conspirators.(Book 8 · Chapter 25 · Part 5 · 📍 Samos)
- With: Diomedon Thrasybulus Thrasyllus
- “Upon hearing this, the persons whom they addressed now went round the soldiers one by one, and urged them to resist”
- The Samian commons defeated the Three Hundred, killed some, banished ringleaders, and restored democratic government.(Book 8 · Chapter 25 · Part 5 · 📍 Samos)
- With: Diomedon Thrasybulus Thrasyllus
- “Accordingly, when the Three Hundred attacked the people, all these came to the rescue, and foremost of all the crew of the Paralus; and the Samian commons gained the victory, and putting to death some thirty of the Three Hundred, and banishing three others of the ringleaders, accorded an amnesty to the rest, and lived together under a democratic government for the future.”
Book 8 · Chapter 24 · Part 4
- with Diomedon (They jointly led the Athenian ships.) “the Athenian ships, twenty-five in number, sailed to Lesbos under Diomedon and Leon, who had lately arrived with a reinforcement of ten ships from Athens.”
Book 8 · Chapter 25 · Part 3
- with Diomedon (They were appointed to replace Phrynichus and Scironides in command of the fleet.) “At the same time the people, upon a false accusation of Pisander, dismissed Phrynichus from his post together with his colleague Scironides, sending Diomedon and Leon to replace them in the command of the fleet.”
- with Phrynichus (Leon replaced Phrynichus in command of the fleet.) “At the same time the people, upon a false accusation of Pisander, dismissed Phrynichus from his post together with his colleague Scironides, sending Diomedon and Leon to replace them in the command of the fleet.”
- with Scironides (Leon replaced Scironides in command of the fleet.) “At the same time the people, upon a false accusation of Pisander, dismissed Phrynichus from his post together with his colleague Scironides, sending Diomedon and Leon to replace them in the command of the fleet.”
Book 8 · Chapter 25 · Part 5
- with Diomedon (interaction) “and told two of the generals, Leon and Diomedon, who, on account of the credit which they enjoyed with the commons, were unwilling supporters of the oligarchy”
- with Thrasybulus (interaction) “and told two of the generals, Leon and Diomedon, who, on account of the credit which they enjoyed with the commons, were unwilling supporters of the oligarchy; and also Thrasybulus and Thrasyllus, the former a captain of a galley, the latter serving with the heavy infantry”
- with Thrasyllus (interaction) “and told two of the generals, Leon and Diomedon, who, on account of the credit which they enjoyed with the commons, were unwilling supporters of the oligarchy; and also Thrasybulus and Thrasyllus, the former a captain of a galley, the latter serving with the heavy infantry”
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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.