A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Leontium
LEONTIUM, an Athenian Courtesan, a Disciple of the Epicurean Philosophy,
Which she defended against Theophrastus, chief of the sect of the Peripatetics, and the most eloquent philosopher of his time. Her writings had success, and were particularly admired for the correctness and elegance of the stile.
She was celebrated by the poet Harmesianax, of Colophon, in his Elegies, and was a very learned and accomplished woman. She had a son by Metrodorus, one of her own sect, and a daughter Danaë, who was likewise a courtesan.
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