Leontiades

Family: Theban · Role: commander · First appears: Book 7 · §197–206

Life events

• Leonidas summoned the Thebans to determine whether they would send troops or renounce the Hellenic alliance.(Book 7 · §197–206 · 📍 Thermopylai)
  • With: Leonidas
  • “therefore he summoned them to the war, desiring to know whether they would send troops with them or whether they would openly renounce the alliance of the Hellenes”
• The Thebans sent troops despite having other intentions.(Book 7 · §197–206 · 📍 Thermopylai)
  • With: Leonidas
  • “and they sent men, having other thoughts in their mind the while.”
• The Thebans surrendered to the Persians, and Xerxes ordered many branded, including Leontiades.(Book 7 · §225–234 · 📍 Thermopylai)
  • With: Xerxes
  • “the greater number of them were branded by command of Xerxes with the royal marks, beginning with their leader Leontiades”

Book 7 · §197–206

• parent: Eurymachos (father of Leontiades) “of whom the commander was Leontiades the son of Eurymachos”

Book 7 · §225–234

• child: Eurymachos (son of Leontiades) “beginning with their leader Leontiades, the same whose son Eurymachos was afterwards slain by the Plataians, when he had been made commander of four hundred Thebans and had seized the city of the Plataians.”
• with Xerxes (Xerxes ordered Leontiades to be branded.) “the greater number of them were branded by command of Xerxes with the royal marks, beginning with their leader Leontiades”

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