King of Sparta
Leon (Greek: Λέων) was the 14th Agiad dynasty King of Sparta, ruling from 590 BC to 560 BC.
Name
Leon means "lion".[1][2] The grandson of Leon had a similar name: Leonidas.
Biography
Leon is mentioned in the seventh book of The Histories by Herodotus.[3]
He is said to have, like his father, fought to a draw with the Tegeans.
Grandfather to Leonidis (famous king)
Family
Leon was the son of king Eurycratides[4] and grandson of Anaxander.[5]
He was succeeded on the throne by his son Anaxandridas II, who managed to defeat Tegea.[6]
Family tree
Notes
- ^ Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert (1980). A Greek-English Lexicon (Abridged ed.). United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. p. 411. ISBN 0-19-910207-4.
- ^ Simpson, John; Weiner, Edmund, eds. (1989). "Lion". Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-861186-2.
- ^ Herodotus 7.204, "(Leonides) Anaxandrides’ son, Leon’s son, Eurycratides’ son, Anaxandrus’ son, Eurycrates’ son."
- ^ Totius latinitatis lexicon: C-E (1861) by Egidio Forcellini, Vincenzo de Vit and Giuseppe Furlanetto
- ^ Ancient History: A Revised Chronology, Volume 1 by Anthony Lyle
- ^ Anaxandridas II Archived 2009-04-15 at the Wayback Machine
