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Modern Description: Λεωκόρειον - Leokorion: a shrine to the daughters of Leos, not yet located but, from inscriptional evidence, close to Ag. Philippas church outside the Agora excavations main entrance gate. The three girls were sacrificed to save the city from a pestilence or famine. Associated with the Leontid tribe. This is where, according to Aristotle, Hipparchos was murdered by Harmodios and Aristogeiton in 514 BC.
[Judith Binder: Leokorion: heroon of Leosʼ daughters, on the Panathenaic Way inside a gate in the archaic City Wall: Th. 1.20.2, 6.57.1-3; Agora_III, 108-113, nos. 317-338, Kron, U. 1976, 195-200; located to the south of a conjectural site of the archaic City Wall gate in question, Travlos, J. 1971, fig. 5 no. 20; SEG_48 272 (1998);]
Wikidata ID: Q16328514
Trismegistos Geo: 364

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