"No, it's just that my personal trainer said I had to spit blood doing the new flat bench exercise
"No, it's just that my personal trainer said I had to spit blood doing the new flat bench exercise." Today's splatter miniature features the hetera Leena of Athens also included in Boccaccio's encyclopedia of illustrious women - despite the fact that he considered her a lascivious person as a courtesan - because she sacrificed herself for an ideal. When Harmodius and Aristogitone killed the tyrant Hipparchus, having had a relationship with both and aware of the organization of the conspiracy, she was tortured with extreme cruelty by Hippias, brother of Hipparchus, to reveal what she knew about the accomplices murderers. At the end of her strength, in order not to feel obliged to speak, she bit her tongue amputating it with her teeth. According to some sources she was freed but died shortly after, according to Pausanias instead Hippias mistreated her to the point of killing her, as he believed that she could not be extraneous to the conspiracy. Giovanni Boccaccio, ...