# Leontis

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Map of ancient [Attica](/source/Attica). *[Trittyes](/source/Trittyes)* belonging to the *phyle* of Leontis are numbered "4" and shaded pale green.

**Leontis** ([Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek_language): Λεοντίς) was a *[phyle](/source/Phyle)* (tribe) of [Ancient Attica](/source/Ancient_Attica).[1]

Statue made to mark the victory of the Leontis in an [anthippasia](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anthippasia&action=edit&redlink=1), 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.[2]

[Themistocles](/source/Themistocles) belonged to this phyle.[3]

Two [horse-men](/source/Cavalry#Ancient_Greece:_city-states.2C_Thebes.2C_Thessaly_and_Macedonia) 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.[4][5]

The demes of Leontis were: [Aethalidae](/source/Aethalidae), [Halimus](/source/Halimus), [Deiradiotae](/source/Deiradiotae), [Hecale](/source/Hecale_(Attica)), [Eupyridae](/source/Eupyridae), [Cettus](/source/Cettus), [Colonae](/source/Colonae_(Leontis)), [Cropia](/source/Cropia_(Attica)), [Leuconoe](/source/Leuconoe_(Attica)), [Oeum](/source/Oeum), [Kerameikos](/source/Kerameikos), [Paeonidae](/source/Paeonidae), [Peleces](/source/Peleces), [Upper Potamos](/source/Upper_Potamos), [Lower Potamus](/source/Lower_Potamus), [Deiradiotae](/source/Deiradiotae), [Scambonidae](/source/Scambonidae), [Sounion](/source/Sounion), [Hybadae](/source/Hybadae), [Phrearrhii](/source/Phrearrhii), [Cholleidae](/source/Cholleidae).

## Sources

1. **[^](#cite_ref-J.S._Traill_1-0)** J.S. Traill (1975). [*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.)](https://books.google.com/books?id=vfdkHffQXl4C&dq=deme+Erechtheis&pg=PA38). ASCSA. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0876615140](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0876615140). Retrieved 2015-05-09.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** P. Wilson - [The Athenian Institution of the Khoregia: The Chorus, the City and the Stage](https://books.google.com/books?id=2s4znooUCWMC&dq=phyle+Leontis&pg=PA331) published by [Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press), September 18, 2003 (reprint), 452 pages, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0521542138](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0521542138) [Retrieved 2015-12-22](also looked at [\[1\]](https://books.google.com/books?id=hDe5fIskRBIC&dq=Bryaxis+base&pg=PA96))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Plutarch](/source/Plutarch) (Translated by J. Langhorne, W. Langhorne) - [Volume 1](https://books.google.com/books?id=afAZAQAAMAAJ&dq=Plutarch+phyle+Leontis&pg=PA239) published by A. J. Valpy 1831, *Issues 23-29 of Family Classical Library* [Retrieved 2015-12-22]

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** G.R. Bugh - [The Horsemen of Athens](https://books.google.com/books?id=pAYABAAAQBAJ&dq=Athens+Leontis&pg=PA241) published by [Princeton University Press](/source/Princeton_University_Press) July 14, 2014, 304 pages, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1400859751](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1400859751), *Princeton Legacy Library* [Retrieved 2015-12-22]

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** H. W. Pleket - [*Supplementum epigraphicum graecum*](https://www.google.co.uk/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=Catalogus+Hippeum) published by J.C. Gieben 1991, 699 pages, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9050630731](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9050630731) [Retrieved 2015-12-22]

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