Cydathenaeum or Kydathenaion (Greek: Κυδαθήναιον) was one of the demes in ancient Athens. It belonged in the phyle (tribe) Pandionis.
History edit
When Cleisthenes formally established the deme system in 508/7 BC, Kydathenaion was the third largest deme after Acharnae and Aphidna.[1] Its population is estimated to have been around 3,300–3,600 people.[2]
Kydathenaion was one of the five demes located within the walls of the city of Athens (alongside Koile, Kollytos, Melite, and Skambonidai).[3]
Kydathenaion was in the very heart of Athens: it contained the Acropolis,[4] and possibly the Areopagus.[5]
Notable people from the deme include:
- Cleon (died 422 BC), statesman and a general during the Peloponnesian War[6]
- Andocides (440–390 BC), one of the ten Attic orators[7]
- Aristophanes (c. 446 – c. 386 BC), comic playwright[6]
- Nicochares (died c. 345 BC), comic poet[8]
- Echedemos (fl. 190 BC), statesman, ambassador[9]
- Aristodemus of Cydathenaeum
Notes edit
- ^ Hendriks 2012, p. 21
- ^ Hendriks 2012, p. 70
- ^ Hendriks 2012, p. 23
- ^ Young 1951, p. 140
- ^ Young 1951, p. 142
- ^ a b Reckford 1987, p. 524, fn. 33
- ^ Thompson 1970, p. 143
- ^ Balbina Bäbler. "Nicochares". Der Neue Pauly. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
- ^ Pantos 1989, p. 282
References edit
- Luke Hendriks (2012). Athens and the Attic Demes. MA thesis, Leiden University.
- Pantos A. Pantos (1989). "Echedemos, "The Second Attic Phoibos"". Hesperia. 58 (3): 277–288.
- Kenneth J. Reckford (1987). Aristophanes' Old-and-new Comedy. University of North Carolina Press.
- W. E. Thompson (1970). "Notes on Andocides" (PDF). Acta Classica. 13: 141–148.
- John S. Traill (1975). The political Organization of Attica. American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
- Rodney S. Young (1951). "An Industrial District of Ancient Athens" (PDF). Hesperia. 20 (3): 135–288.
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