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Cydathenaeum or Kydathenaion (Greek: Κυδαθήναιον) was one of the demes in ancient Athens. It belonged in the phyle (tribe) Pandionis.
History
When Cleisthenes formally established the deme system in 508/7 BC, Kydathenaion was the third largest deme after Acharnae and Aphidna. Its population is estimated to have been around 3,300–3,600 people. Kydathenaion was one of the five demes located within the walls of the city of Athens (alongside Koile, Kollytos, Melite, and Skambonidai). It was in the very heart of Athens containing the Acropolis, and possibly the Areopagus.
Notable people from the deme include:
Cleon (died 422 BC), statesman and a general during the Peloponnesian War
Andocides (440–390 BC), one of the ten Attic orators
Aristophanes (c. 446 – c. 386 BC), comic playwright
Nicochares (died c. 345 BC), comic poet
Echedemos (fl. 190 BC), statesman, ambassador
Aristodemus of Cydathenaeum
Notes
References
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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- List of speakers in Plato's dialogues
- Modern influence of Ancient Greece
- Index of ancient Greece-related articles
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