Leon

Family: Spartan · Role: fighting-man · First appears: Book 5 · §36–44

Life events

The Barbarians captured Prexinos’s ship and sacrificed Leon.(Book 7 · §177–186 · 📍 Skiathos)
- With: Prexinos
- “The name of this man who was sacrificed was Leon”

child: Anaxandrides “Anaxandrides the son of Leon was no longer surviving as king”

with Prexinos (Prexinos commanded the ship on which Leon was a fighting-man.) “and the ship of Troizen, of which Prexinos was in command, was pursued and captured at once by the Barbarians; who upon that took the man who was most distinguished by beauty among the fighting-men on board of her, and cut his throat at the prow of the ship”

child: Anaxandrides “the Lacedemonian Leonidas son of Anaxandrides, son of Leon, son of Eurycratides, son of Anaxander, son of Eurycrates, son of Polydoros, son of Alcamenes, son of Teleclos, son of Archelaos, son of Hegesilaos, son of Doryssos, son of Leobotes, son of Echestratos, son of Agis, son of Eurysthenes, son of Aristodemos, son of Aristomachos, son of Cleodaios, son of Hyllos, son of Heracles”
parent: Eurycratides “the Lacedemonian Leonidas son of Anaxandrides, son of Leon, son of Eurycratides, son of Anaxander, son of Eurycrates, son of Polydoros, son of Alcamenes, son of Teleclos, son of Archelaos, son of Hegesilaos, son of Doryssos, son of Leobotes, son of Echestratos, son of Agis, son of Eurysthenes, son of Aristodemos, son of Aristomachos, son of Cleodaios, son of Hyllos, son of Heracles”

Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.