Leontiades
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Leontiades son of Eurymachus
in the texts
Hellenica
Theban polemarch who collaborates with Phoebidas to seize the Cadmea and remove Ismenias.
Now since the Thebans were divided by factions, it chanced that Ismenias and Leontiades, who were polemarchs, were at variance with one another, and both of them leaders of their respective political clubs.
When these things had been accomplished, they chose another polemarch in place of Ismenias, but Leontiades proceeded at once to Lacedaemon.
as for Leontiades and his party, they held possession of Thebes and gave the Lacedaemonians their support in even more than was demanded of them.
The Histories
General of the Theban contingent at Thermopylae, who leads his men in defecting to the Persians when the battle turns.
He also brought those Thebans whom I counted among the number and whose general was Leontiades son of Eurymachus.
Most of them were branded by Xerxes command with the kings marks, starting with the general Leontiades.
The Thebans, whose general was Leontiades, fought against the king's army as long as they were with the Hellenes and under compulsion.