Leæna

Also known as: Lioness · Family: Athenians · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 23

After the death of Hipparchus, Hippias tortured Leæna to death, suspecting she knew of the plot against Hipparchus and knowing she had been Aristogiton’s mistress. After the Pisistratidæ were deposed, the Athenians erected a brazen lioness in her memory.

Relationship record

Life events

• Hippias tortured Leæna to death, suspecting her knowledge of Aristogiton’s plot.(Book 1 · Chapter 23)
  • With: Hippias
  • “Hippias tortured her to death, knowing that she had been Aristogiton’s mistress, and thinking that she could not have been ignorant of the plot against Hipparchus.”
• The Athenians erected a brazen lioness to commemorate Leæna.(Book 1 · Chapter 23)
  • “In return for this, when the Pisistratidæ had been deposed from the kingdom, a brazen lioness was erected by the Athenians to her memory”

Book 1 · Chapter 23

• with Hippias (interaction) “Hippias tortured her to death, knowing that she had been Aristogiton’s mistress”
• with Aristogiton (interaction) “knowing that she had been Aristogiton’s mistress”
• with Aristogiton (Aristogiton was Leæna's former lover or sexual partner.) “knowing that she had been Aristogiton’s mistress”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.