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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.

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)

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]

Leon of Sparta

Wife of Leon

Daughter of Prinetades

Wife of Cleomenes

Wife of Eurycratides

Leon of Sparta

Wife of Leon

Niece of Anaxandridas

^ 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