Leukon I
| Leukon I | |
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| "Archon of the Bosporus, Theodosia, all Sindike" | |
Statue of a Bosporan ruler in 4th century BC, possibly Leukon.
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| Reign | 389-349 BC |
| Predecessor | Satyros I |
| Successor | Spartokos II and Paerisades I |
| Born | circa. 410 BC Panticapaeum |
| Died | 349 BC(aged 60+) Bosporan Kingdom |
| Burial | Royal Kurgan |
| Consort | Theodosia |
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| Greek | Λευκών |
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| Father | Satyros I |
| Mother | Unknown |
| Religion | Greek Polytheism |
Leukon I (Greek: Λεύκον A') also known as Leucon, and Leuco was a king of the Bosporan Kingdom that ruled from 389 to 349 BC. His father was Satyros I (407 - 387 BC), and his grandfather was Spartokos I, the first Spartocid ruler. Leukon co-jointly ruled his kingdom with his brother Gorgippos, who situated himself on the Asiatic side and ruled from Gorgippia, which he may have named after himself. Leukon was succeeded by his sons Spartokos II (349 - 342 BC) and Paerisades I (349-309).
He was noted in antiquity as a strategist and a disciplinarian. In the writings of Aeneas Tacticus, How to Survive under Siege (Greek: Περὶ τοῦ πῶς χρὴ πολιορκουμένους ἀντέχειν), he dismissed his guards who owed gambling debts, because their loyalty could be doubted during a city siege.
He continued the war of his father against Theodosia and Chersonesus with the goal of annexing all the Greek colonies in the Bosporus. He also made Sindike his vassal, and in an inscription (see Epigraphy) from Nymphaion he is described as "archon of the Bosporus, Theodosia, all Sindike".
Leukon had a pivotal role in the Bosporan Wars of Expansion, a series of conflicts started by his grandfather and former king of the Bosporus, Spartokos I. Throughout Leukon's reign, he conquered many cities and tribes, making his reign one which expanded the Bosporan Kingdom, and created a foreign and trade policy outside the Black Sea, significantly with Athens, a commercial friend of the .
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