Cydathenaeum

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.^[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] It was in the very heart of Athens containing 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

^ 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

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.