Episode 7.2 - Leukon

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Leukon was the tyrant, then king, of the Cimmerian Bosporus, a territory on the Crimean Peninsula, at the very edge of the Greek world. He took the territory, capitalized on its relationship to the rest of the Greek world to create an important Hellenized kingdom that would last for centuries.

Sources

  • The Cambridge Ancient History; Volume 6: The Fourth Century BC, 2nd edition

  • Plutarch, Lives, Pericles

  • Sergei R Tokhtas’ev, The Bosporus and Sindike in the Era of Leukon I, New Epigraphic Publications

  • Aeschines, “Against Ctesiphon”

  • Polyaenus, Strategems

  • D.E.W. Wormell, Studies in Greek Tyranny – II. Leucon of Bosporus

  • Stanley M. Burstein, The War between Heraclea Pontica and Leucon I of Bosporus

  • Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae

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