{{coord|37.68|N|23.96|E|display=title}} '''Atene''' ({{langx|el|Ἀτήνη}}) was a coastal (''paralia'') [[deme]] of [[Attica]], belonging to the [[Antiochis#Athenian clan (phyle)|Antiochis tribe]] (''[[phyle]]''), with three representatives in the [[Boule (ancient Greece)|Boule]].<ref name="NP">{{cite encyclopedia | last = Lohmann | first = Hans | title = Atene | encyclopedia = Brill's New Pauly | publisher = Brill Online | doi = 10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e205340 }}</ref>
It bordered [[Anaphlystus]] to the north and [[Amphitrope]] in the east,<ref name="NP"/> in what is now the southern part of [[Saronikos, Attica|Saronikos municipality]].
It had an area of about 20 km<sup>2</sup>, including the valleys of Charaka, Hagia Photini and Thimari as well as [[Patroklos (Attica)|Gaidouronisi]].<ref name="NP"/>
The area had been mostly uninhabited prior to the 5th century BC. The first epigraphic mention of Atene dates to 432 BC.<ref name="NP"/>
It prospered during the 5th to 4th centuries BC, with a [[dispersed settlement]] pattern,<ref>"with a purely dispersed settlement pattern, consisting only of widely scattered farmsteads" Lohmann (1992:35).</ref> but was depopulated in the 3rd century BC, probably in the wake of the [[Chremonidean War]].
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==Sources== *{{cite journal |last1=Ameling |first1=Walter |title=Ein südattischer Demos |journal=Laverna |date=1995 |volume=6 |pages=93-146}} *Hans Lohmann, ''Agriculture and country life in classical Attica'' (1992). *{{cite book |last1=Lohmann |first1=Hans |title=Atene: Forschungen zu Siedlungs- und Wirtschaftsstruktur des klassischen Attika = Atēnē |date=1993 |publisher=Böhlau Verlag |location=Köln |isbn=9783412034924}}
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