Leokoreion (Athens Agora) 15 Agora of Athens - Λεωκόρειον

Λεωκόρειον - Leokorion?, Likely site of shrine to sacrificed daughters of Leos, Agora of Athens
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Latitude: 37.976100
Longitude: 23.723000
Confidence: Medium (20180801)

Greek name: Λεωκόρειον
Place ID: 380237SLeo
Time period: C
Region: Attica
Country: Greece
Department: Athens C
Mod: Agora of Athens

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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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Thucydides, Peloponnesian War§1.20  and risk their lives for nothing, fell upon Hipparchus near the so-called Leokoreion, and slew him as he was arranging the Panathenaic procession. 3 -600
Aristotle, Constitution of Athens§18  without waiting for the rest of the conspirators, killed Hipparchus by the Leokoreion as he was arranging the procession. Thus they ruined the whole plot, -550
Thucydides, Peloponnesian War§6.57  as they were, within the gates, and meeting with Hipparchus by the Leokoreion recklessly fell upon him at once, infuriated, Aristogiton by love, and Harmodius -415
Demosthenes 54, Against Conon§7  of the defendant, passed by me in a drunken state opposite the Leocorion, near the house of Pythodorus. At sight of us he uttered -350
Demosthenes 54, Against Conon§8  (shrine of Persephone), and on our walk were again about opposite the Leocorion when we met them. When we got close to them one of -350
Harpokration, Lexicon of the Ten Orators§l16   Leokoreion : Demosthenes in Against Konon. Phanodemos in book 9 of Atthis says -350
Harpokration, Lexicon of the Ten Orators§l16  in Against Konon. Phanodemos in book 9 of Atthis says that the Leokoreion is in the middle of the Kerameikos. -350
Alciphron, Letters I-III§3.2  and who, as you know, is always to be found near the Leocorium . I have prepared a noble supper, slices of fish, and jars -350
Menander, Dyskolos (the Grouch)§170  you people made up your mind this is a stoa or the shrine of Leos ? In front of my house, if you want to see someone, -325
Cicero, Nature of the Gods§3.50  deified Erechtheus and his daughters, and have erected also a shrine, called Leocorion, to the daughters of Leus. Alabandus is more honored in the -50
Strabo, Geography§9.1.16  I have become an initiate into its sacred mysteries; yonder is the Leocorium, here is the Theseium; I am unable to point them all -1
Strabo, Geography§9.1.17  other demes there are many historical incidents to tell; and, further, the Leocorium and the Theseium have myths connected with them, and so has the -1
Aelian, Varia Historia§12.28  The Leocorium so called at Athens was a temenos of the daughters of Leos, -1
Suda Encyclopedia§la.261  Λεωκόριον: Leokorion, Leos-shrine: A place in Attica, [taking its name] from a story. -1
Suda Encyclopedia§la.261  the city from the famine; and the place was given the name Leokorion after him. -1
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