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According to the Christian historian Eusebius, Leonides' son was the early Church father Origen. [1] Eusebius also says that he was of Greek nationality. [1] In the same passage Eusebius tells us that Leonides was martyred during the persecution of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus in the year 202 AD. Condemned to death by the Egyptian ...
This second wife, a descendant of Chilon of Sparta (one of the Seven Sages of Greece), promptly bore a son, Cleomenes. However, one year after Cleomenes' birth, Anaxandridas' first wife also gave birth to a son, Dorieus. Leonidas was the second son of Anaxandridas' first wife, and either the elder brother or twin of Cleombrotus. [1]
Leonidas [a] of Alexandria (/ l i ˈ ɒ n ɪ d ə s,-d æ s /; Ancient Greek: Λεωνίδας; Latin: Leonidas Alexandrinus; fl. 1st century AD) was a Greek epigrammatist active at Rome during the reigns of Nero and Vespasian. Some of his epigrams are preserved in the Greek Anthology, and in one he lays claim to having invented the isopsephic ...
A bust believed to depict King Leonidas I, Gorgo's husband. After Cleomenes's death in 489 BC, Gorgo was left as his sole heiress. By 490, she was apparently already married to her half-uncle Leonidas I. [11] Despite being the daughter and wife of Spartan kings, Gorgo herself could not be considered a queen, as royal women in Sparta did not typically hold a special role in society.
Origen, escorted by official bodyguards, [56] spent a short time in Arabia with the governor before returning to Alexandria. [57] In the autumn of 215, the Roman Emperor Caracalla visited Alexandria. [58] During the visit, the students at the schools there protested and made fun of him for having murdered his brother Geta [58] (died 211).
Leonides of Alexandria (died AD 202), Christian martyr and father of Origen; Leonidas of Alexandria (fl. 1st century AD), Greek epigrammatist active in Rome; Other
Saint Leonidas (or Leonides) refers to several Christian martyrs: An Egyptian who died in the Diocletianic Persecution (feast day 28 January) A companion of St. Diomedes (feast day 2 September)
Lazarus, Salomi, his wife and their children, martyr; Leonides of Alexandria, martyr, father of Origen; Longinus, abbot of Ennaton monastery in Alexandria; Longinus, Roman soldier who pierced Jesus Christ in his side on the cross; Lucas I, bishop of Manfalut and Abnub; Lucas II, bishop of Manfalut and Abnub; Lucilianus and four others with him.