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'''Leaena''' ("lioness"), probably Greek, was a prostitute and the [[Mistress (lover)|mistress]] of [[Aristogeiton the Tyrannicide]], a homosexual lover of tyrant Harmondius.<ref>[http://members.aol.com/heliogabby/deipnon/deipnon3.htm The Deipnosophists of Athenaeus of Naucratis, Book XIII Concerning Women]</ref> |
'''Leaena''' ("lioness"), probably Greek, was a prostitute and the [[Mistress (lover)|mistress]] of [[Aristogeiton the Tyrannicide]], a homosexual lover of tyrant Harmondius.<ref>[http://members.aol.com/heliogabby/deipnon/deipnon3.htm The Deipnosophists of Athenaeus of Naucratis, Book XIII Concerning Women]</ref> |
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When [[Anaxandridas II]] was king of Sparta in the 6th century BC, [[Harmodius and Aristogeiton]] were compelled to overthrow the tyranny of [[Hippias]] and [[Hipparchus]].<ref>[http://www.pos1.info/b/b014w.htm The Death of Hipparchus]</ref> Among those captured in the plot to murder Hipparchus was Leaena who Aristogeiton was in love with.<ref>[http://www.attalus.org/old/athenaeus13c.html Athenaeus: Deipnosophists - Book 13(c)]</ref> She was tortured to get information about the perpetrators' involvement.<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6156/6156-h/vol1.htm Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book I, Chapter 3]</ref> Leaena then rose to the |
When [[Anaxandridas II]] was king of Sparta in the 6th century BC, [[Harmodius and Aristogeiton]] were compelled to overthrow the tyranny of [[Hippias]] and [[Hipparchus]].<ref>[http://www.pos1.info/b/b014w.htm The Death of Hipparchus]</ref> Among those captured in the plot to murder Hipparchus was Leaena who Aristogeiton was in love with.<ref>[http://www.attalus.org/old/athenaeus13c.html Athenaeus: Deipnosophists - Book 13(c)]</ref> She was tortured to get information about the perpetrators' involvement.<ref>[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6156/6156-h/vol1.htm Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book I, Chapter 3]</ref> Leaena then rose to the occasion to be virtuous, in spite of her "occupation", and bit her tongue off so she would not be capable of revealing detrimental information.<ref>[http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_chronicle_03_part2.htm Beginning of the Consuls of the Romans] </ref> According to [[Pausanias (geographer)| Pausanias]], the Athenians set up a bronze lioness on the [[Acropolis of Athens|Acropolis]] in her memory.<ref>Pausanias [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Paus.+1.23.1 1.23.1–2].</ref> This brass lioness statue at the entrance was without a tongue.<ref>[http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1214&layout=html Plutarch, ''The Morals,'' volume 4.]</ref> |
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Leaena ("lioness"), probably Greek, was a prostitute and the mistress of Aristogeiton the Tyrannicide, a homosexual lover of tyrant Harmondius.[1]
When Anaxandridas II was king of Sparta in the 6th century BC, Harmodius and Aristogeiton were compelled to overthrow the tyranny of Hippias and Hipparchus.[2] Among those captured in the plot to murder Hipparchus was Leaena who Aristogeiton was in love with.[3] She was tortured to get information about the perpetrators' involvement.[4] Leaena then rose to the occasion to be virtuous, in spite of her "occupation", and bit her tongue off so she would not be capable of revealing detrimental information.[5] According to Pausanias, the Athenians set up a bronze lioness on the Acropolis in her memory.[6] This brass lioness statue at the entrance was without a tongue.[7]
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- Plutarch, The Morals, volume 4, trans. William W. Goodwin w/ Introduction by Ralph Waldo Emerson, (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1878) The Online Library of Liberty
- The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens By Eva C. Keuls, p. 194, University of California Press (1993), ISBN 0520079299
- Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book II. by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Project Guttenberg
- Eusebius, Chronicon (Jerome translation), edition of R. Helm (Leipzig, 1913), 106.1-7
- Pliny the Elder, Natural History VII.23.87, 34.19.72
- Plutarch, De garrulitate 505E