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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 ...
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 ...
Origen of Alexandria [a] (c. 185 – c. 253), [4] also known as Origen Adamantius, [b] was an early Christian scholar, [7] ascetic, [8] and theologian who was born and spent the first half of his career in Alexandria.
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)
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
According to Herodotus, Leonidas' mother was not only his father's wife, but also his father's niece and had been barren for so long that the ephors, the five annually elected administrators of the Spartan constitution, tried to prevail upon King Anaxandridas II to set her aside and take another wife.
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Leonidas, (Greek: Λεωνίδας), a Greek physician who was a native of Alexandria, and belonged to the sect of the Episynthetici. [1] As he is quoted by Caelius Aurelianus, [2] and himself quotes Galen, [3] he probably lived in the 2nd and 3rd centuries.