Leukon I of Bosporus

Bosporan Kingdom

The Bosporan Kingdom or the Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosporus was an ancient state, located in eastern Crimea and the Taman Peninsula on the shores of the Cimmerian Bosporus...

 (389 - 349 BC), also known as Leuco and Leuko (Greek

Greek

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: Λεύκον A') was a Spartocid

Spartocids

Spartocids : a Thracian dynasty of the Kingdom of Bosporus, ruled in 438–110 BC.The following genealogy is based upon Ferdinand Justi, Iranisches Namenbuch, , , p. 400:- See also :...

 king of the Cimmerian Bosphorus kingdom.

His father was Satyros I (407 - 387 BC), and he was succeeded by his son Spartokos III (347 - 342 BC).

He was noted in antiquity as a strategist and a disciplinarian. In the writings of Aeneas Tacticus

Aeneas Tacticus

Aeneas Tacticus was one of the earliest Greek writers on the art of war.According to Aelianus Tacticus and Polybius, he wrote a number of treatises on the subject. The only extant one, How to Survive under Siege , deals with the best methods of defending a fortified city...

, How to Survive under Siege (Greek

Greek

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: 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

Archon

Archon is a Greek word that means "ruler" or "lord", frequently used as the title of a specific public office. It is the masculine present participle of the verb stem ἀρχ-, meaning "to rule", derived from the same root as monarch, hierarchy, and anarchy.- Ancient Greece :In ancient Greece the...

of the Bosporus, Theodosia, all Sindike".

See Also

• Cimmerian Bosporus
  Strait of Kerch
  The Kerch Strait connects the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, separating the Kerch Peninsula in the west from the Taman Peninsula in the east. The strait is to wide and up to deep....
  
  
• List of Kings of Cimmerian Bosporus
• Sindi people
• 4th century BC
  4th century BC
  The 4th century BC started the first day of 400 BC and ended the last day of 301 BC. It is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or historical period.-Overview:This century marked the height of Classical Greek civilization in all of its aspects...
  
  

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Aeneas Tacticus

Aeneas Tacticus

Aeneas Tacticus was one of the earliest Greek writers on the art of war.According to Aelianus Tacticus and Polybius, he wrote a number of treatises on the subject. The only extant one, How to Survive under Siege , deals with the best methods of defending a fortified city...

, Περὶ τοῦ πῶς χρὴ πολιορκουμένους ἀντέχειν (online edition here).

Stanley M. Burstein (1974), "The War between Heraclea Pontica and Leucon I of Bosporus" Historia: Zeitschrift fur Alte Geschicte. 4th Quarter. pp 401-416.

Encyclopedia Britannica Academic Edition (2011) (online page here).

Sergei R. Tokhtas'ev (2006), "The Bosporus and Sindike in the Era of Leukon I. New Epigraphic Publications" Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia. Volume 12 series 1-2, pp.1-62