# Aiantis

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Map of ancient [Attica](/source/Attica). *[Trittyes](/source/Trittyes)* belonging to the *phyle* of Aiantis are numbered "9" and shaded pale yellow.

**Aiantis** ([Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek_language): Αἰαντίς) was a [phyle](/source/Phyle) of ancient [Attica](/source/Attica) with six [demes](/source/Deme):[1] [Aphidna](/source/Aphidna), [Marathon](/source/Marathon%2C_Greece), [Oenoe](/source/Oenoe_(Marathon)), [Rhamnous](/source/Rhamnous), [Tricorythus](/source/Tricorythus) and [Phalerum](/source/Phalerum).[2] It was named in honour of [Ajax the Great](/source/Ajax_the_Great).

Ruins of [Rhamnous](/source/Rhamnous), a *deme* of the Aiantis.

[Marathon](/source/Marathon%2C_Greece) is located within the boundaries of this place.[3]

It is attested by [Plutarch](/source/Plutarch) that fifty-two members of the tribe of Aiantis died from wounds sustained in the [Battle of Plataea](/source/Battle_of_Plataea).[4]

The playwright [Aeschylus](/source/Aeschylus) came from deme Eleusis in Aiantis.[5] His family were [eupatrids](/source/Eupatrid).[6]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** JS. Traill - [The Political Organization of Attica: A Study of the Demes, Trittyes, and Phylai, and Their Representation in the Athenian Council, Volumes 14-16 (p.13)](https://books.google.com/books?id=vfdkHffQXl4C&dq=Attica+Antiochis+tribe&pg=PA14) ASCSA, 1975 [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0876615140](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0876615140) [Retrieved 2015-04-17]

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** A Missiou (Associate Professor of Ancient Greek History at the University of Crete) - [Literacy and Democracy in Fifth-Century Athens (p.18)](https://books.google.com/books?id=QpY_s62nC24C&dq=Aiantis&pg=PA18) Length 211 pages *Cambridge University Press*, 17 Feb 2011 [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0521111404](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0521111404) [Retrieved 2015-04-18](Efharisto, [Efharistoomay](http://www.cretetravel.com/travel_tips/a-few-words-in-greek/))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** P Vidal-Naquet - director of the Centre de Recherches comparées sur les Sociétés Anciennes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris c, 1998 - [The Black Hunter: Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World (p.91)](https://books.google.com/books?id=Wq2GxLEH--kC&dq=Aiantis&pg=PA91) translated by A Szegedy-Maszak, JHU Press, 9 Jul 1998 (reprint) [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0801859514](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0801859514) [Retrieved 2015-04-18]

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** JD. Mikalson (William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia) - [Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars](https://books.google.com/books?id=nM9FAwAAQBAJ&dq=Aiantis&pg=PA104) Univ of North Carolina Press, 15 Sep 2003 [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0807862010](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0807862010) [Retrieved 2015-04-18]

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [Sekunda, Nicholas](/source/Nicholas_Sekunda) (2002). *Marathon 490 BC: The first Persian invasion of Greece*. Campaign 108. Osprey Publishing. p. 53. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1841760005](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1841760005).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** (edited by FN Magill) [The Ancient World: Dictionary of World Biography, Volume 1](https://books.google.com/books?id=_CMl8ziTbKYC&dq=Aischylos+son+of+Euphorion&pg=PA15) Routledge, 16 Dec 2003 [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1135457395](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1135457395) [Retrieved 2015-04-18]

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