Leontis (phyle)

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Leontis ( Greek  Λεωντίς ) was the fourth of ten administrative regions ( Phylen ) into which Kleisthenes entered during his reforms at the end of the 6th century BC. BC divided the Attic peninsula . Of the three previous areas of Attica Leontis included the Trittyen Skambonidai (from the city area), Hecale (from inland) and Phrearrhioi (the coastal area).

The poet Kinesias came from the inland demos Paionidai ; the southern coastal district also comprised the extreme tip of the peninsula with the Temple of Poseidon in Sunion . In the ancient urban district of Halimus - today: Alimos - the historian and general Thucydides was born.

The phyle owes its name to the mythical hero Leos , who sacrificed his daughters to save Athens during a famine. This Leoïden built the residents later in Kerameikos the sanctuary Leokorion .

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Individual evidence

  1. Herodotus Histories 5,66.
  2. Pausanias 1,5,2f.
  3. ^ Claudius Aelianus Varia Historia 12:28.
  4. ^ Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Leos 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Col. 1946 f. ( Digitized version ).