Leontis

[[File:L'Attique après Clisthene.jpg|thumb|Map of ancient [[Attica]]. ''[[Trittyes]]'' belonging to the ''phyle'' of Leontis are numbered "4" and shaded pale green.]] '''Leontis''' ({{Langx|grc|Λεοντίς}}) was a ''[[phyle]]'' (tribe) of [[Ancient Attica]].<ref name="J.S. Traill">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vfdkHffQXl4C&dq=deme+Erechtheis&pg=PA38|author=J.S. Traill|title=The Political Organization of Attica: A Study of the Demes, Trittyes, and Phylai, and Their Representation in the Athenian Council, Volumes 14-16 (p.37 - ) ''Volume 14 of Hesperia (Princeton, N.J.)''|publisher=ASCSA|year=1975|isbn=0876615140 |accessdate=2015-05-09}}</ref> [[File:Relief fragment, dedication for victory of the tribe Leontis in anthippasia. Early 4th century BC.jpg|thumb|Statue made to mark the victory of the Leontis in an [[anthippasia]], early 4th century BC.]] The phyle is shown on the base of a statue made after an anthippasia to commemorate the victory of the phyle at the mock battle.<ref>P. Wilson - [https://books.google.com/books?id=2s4znooUCWMC&dq=phyle+Leontis&pg=PA331 The Athenian Institution of the Khoregia: The Chorus, the City and the Stage] published by [[Cambridge University Press]], September 18, 2003 (reprint), 452 pages, {{ISBN|0521542138}} [Retrieved 2015-12-22](also looked at [https://books.google.com/books?id=hDe5fIskRBIC&dq=Bryaxis+base&pg=PA96])</ref>

[[Themistocles]] belonged to this phyle.<ref>[[Plutarch]] (Translated by J. Langhorne, W. Langhorne) - [https://books.google.com/books?id=afAZAQAAMAAJ&dq=Plutarch+phyle+Leontis&pg=PA239 Volume 1] published by A. J. Valpy 1831, ''Issues 23-29 of Family Classical Library'' [Retrieved 2015-12-22]</ref>

Two [[Cavalry#Ancient Greece: city-states.2C Thebes.2C Thessaly and Macedonia|horse-men]] are listed as part of the Catalogus Hippeum in history who possibly belonged to this phyle, they were Euktimenos and Euthymenes, both living during the 3rd century B.C.E.<ref>G.R. Bugh - [https://books.google.com/books?id=pAYABAAAQBAJ&dq=Athens+Leontis&pg=PA241 The Horsemen of Athens] published by [[Princeton University Press]] July 14, 2014, 304 pages, {{ISBN|1400859751}}, ''Princeton Legacy Library'' [Retrieved 2015-12-22]</ref><ref>H. W. Pleket - [https://www.google.co.uk/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=Catalogus+Hippeum ''Supplementum epigraphicum graecum''] published by J.C. Gieben 1991, 699 pages, {{ISBN|9050630731}} [Retrieved 2015-12-22]</ref>

The demes of Leontis were: [[Aethalidae]], [[Halimus]], [[Deiradiotae]], [[Hecale (Attica)|Hecale]], [[Eupyridae]], [[Cettus]], [[Colonae (Leontis)|Colonae]], [[Cropia (Attica)|Cropia]], [[Leuconoe (Attica)|Leuconoe]], [[Oeum]], [[Kerameikos]], [[Paeonidae]], [[Peleces]], [[Upper Potamos]], [[Lower Potamus]], [[Deiradiotae]], [[Scambonidae]], [[Sounion]], [[Hybadae]], [[Phrearrhii]], [[Cholleidae]].

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[[Category:Ancient tribes in Attica]]