Leo

Family: Lacedæmonian · Role: king · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 37

As a Lacedæmonian king, Leo is named in Book 1, Chapter 37 as the father of Sophocles, in the line “Xenocles, the son of Sophocles, the son of Leo”.

By Book 3, Chapter 3, Leo is also named as the father of Eurycrates, son of Anaxander, and of Anaxandrides, whose reign is described as “the reign of Anaxandrides the son of Leo”.

Relationship record

Book 1 · Chapter 37

• child: Sophocles (son of Leo) “Xenocles, the son of Sophocles, the son of Leo”

Book 3 · Chapter 3

• parent: Eurycrates (son of Anaxander) (The second Eurycrates is Leo's father.) “and this second Eurycrates a son Leo.”
• child: Anaxandrides (Leo is Anaxandrides's father.) “in the reign of Anaxandrides the son of Leo”

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