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Leontion (sometimes rendered "Leontium"), was a Greek woman who achieved fame sometime around the time of Alexander the Great.

She was notorious for her infamous acts and unchaste heart, living out of brothels. Her morals were questionable as she was a courtesan, sometimes referred to as a mistress, or high class prostitute.

Leontion is said to have published arguments criticizing the famous philosopher Theophrastus. Boccaccio wondered if Loentium was the stronger of the two of either dragging philosophy down to her level or if philosophy was the weaker because of her having an enlightened heart to be dominated by her disgraceful acts.

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Virginia Brown's translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Famous Women, pages 124 - 125; Harvard University Press, 2001; ISBN 0-674-01130-9