Leos, one of the ten or twelve
Eponyms of the
Atticphylae whose statues were at the
Athenianagora near the
Tholos.[1] He was the son of
Orpheus and father of a son,
Cylanthus, and of three daughters,
Praxithea (or
Phasithea,
Phrasithea),
Theope and
Eubule. In obedience to the
Delphian oracle he had his three daughters sacrificed in order to relieve the city of famine. A location in Attica and a
hero-shrine was said to have received the name Leokorion after these daughters of Leos (Λεὡ κόραι, Leō korai) and Leokorion (Λεωκόριον).[2] In reality though, the story of the daughters of Leos could have been invented to explain the placename.[3]
Leos, a native of Agnus, Attica, the herald of the sons of
Pallas. He betrayed them by informing
Theseus of their imminent attack, which let him strike at them while they were unaware and win. From that circumstance there was no intermarriage between the
demes Agnus and Pallene, and the Pallenian heralds never used the formula "ἀκούετε λεῷ" ("Listen, people") because of the homophony of the word leōs "people" and Leos' name.[4] The people of Agnus, on the contrary, sacrificed to Leos.[5]
Claudius Aelianus, Claudii Aeliani de natura animalium libri xvii, varia historia, epistolae, fragmenta, Vol 2. Rudolf Hercher. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1866.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Suida, Suda Encyclopedia translated by Ross Scaife, David Whitehead, William Hutton, Catharine Roth, Jennifer Benedict, Gregory Hays, Malcolm Heath Sean M. Redmond, Nicholas Fincher, Patrick Rourke, Elizabeth Vandiver, Raphael Finkel, Frederick Williams, Carl Widstrand, Robert Dyer, Joseph L. Rife, Oliver Phillips and many others.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.
Leos, one of the ten or twelve
Eponyms of the
Atticphylae whose statues were at the
Athenianagora near the
Tholos.[1] He was the son of
Orpheus and father of a son,
Cylanthus, and of three daughters,
Praxithea (or
Phasithea,
Phrasithea),
Theope and
Eubule. In obedience to the
Delphian oracle he had his three daughters sacrificed in order to relieve the city of famine. A location in Attica and a
hero-shrine was said to have received the name Leokorion after these daughters of Leos (Λεὡ κόραι, Leō korai) and Leokorion (Λεωκόριον).[2] In reality though, the story of the daughters of Leos could have been invented to explain the placename.[3]
Leos, a native of Agnus, Attica, the herald of the sons of
Pallas. He betrayed them by informing
Theseus of their imminent attack, which let him strike at them while they were unaware and win. From that circumstance there was no intermarriage between the
demes Agnus and Pallene, and the Pallenian heralds never used the formula "ἀκούετε λεῷ" ("Listen, people") because of the homophony of the word leōs "people" and Leos' name.[4] The people of Agnus, on the contrary, sacrificed to Leos.[5]
Claudius Aelianus, Claudii Aeliani de natura animalium libri xvii, varia historia, epistolae, fragmenta, Vol 2. Rudolf Hercher. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1866.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Suida, Suda Encyclopedia translated by Ross Scaife, David Whitehead, William Hutton, Catharine Roth, Jennifer Benedict, Gregory Hays, Malcolm Heath Sean M. Redmond, Nicholas Fincher, Patrick Rourke, Elizabeth Vandiver, Raphael Finkel, Frederick Williams, Carl Widstrand, Robert Dyer, Joseph L. Rife, Oliver Phillips and many others.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.