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 3300–3600 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 Acropolis,^[4] and possibly 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[]

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.

Coordinates: 37°58′26″N 23°43′50″E / 37.974°N 23.7306°E / 37.974; 23.7306

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