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Deme in ancient Athens

**Cydathenaeum** or **Kydathenaion** ([Greek](/source/Greek_language): Κυδαθήναιον) was one of the [demes](/source/Deme) in ancient [Athens](/source/Athens). It belonged in the *[phyle](/source/Phyle)* (tribe) [Pandionis](/source/Pandionis).

## History

When [Cleisthenes](/source/Cleisthenes) formally established the deme system in 508/7 BC, Kydathenaion was the third largest deme after [Acharnae](/source/Acharnae) and [Aphidna](/source/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](/source/Koile), [Kollytos](/source/Kollytos), [Melite](/source/Melite_(deme)), and [Skambonidai](/source/Skambonidai)).[3] It was in the very heart of Athens containing the [Acropolis](/source/Acropolis),[4] and possibly the [Areopagus](/source/Areopagus).[5]

Notable people from the deme include:

- [Cleon](/source/Cleon) (died 422 BC), statesman and a general during the [Peloponnesian War](/source/Peloponnesian_War)[6]

- [Andocides](/source/Andocides) (440–390 BC), one of the ten [Attic orators](/source/Attic_orators)[7]

- [Aristophanes](/source/Aristophanes) (c. 446 – c. 386 BC), comic playwright[6]

- [Nicochares](/source/Nicochares) (died c. 345 BC), comic poet[8]

- [Echedemos](/source/Echedemos) (*fl.* 190 BC), statesman, ambassador[9]

- [Aristodemus of Cydathenaeum](/source/Aristodemus_of_Cydathenaeum)

## Notes

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Hendriks 2012, p. 21

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Hendriks 2012, p. 70

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Hendriks 2012, p. 23

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Young 1951, p. 140

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Young 1951, p. 142

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-reckford_6-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-reckford_6-1) Reckford 1987, p. 524, fn. 33

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Thompson 1970, p. 143

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** [Balbina Bäbler](/source/Balbina_B%C3%A4bler). ["Nicochares"](http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/nicochares-e822430). *[Der Neue Pauly](/source/Der_Neue_Pauly)*. Retrieved 29 June 2014.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** Pantos 1989, p. 282

## References

- Luke Hendriks (2012). *[Athens and the Attic Demes](https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/19535)*. MA thesis, [Leiden University](/source/Leiden_University).

- Pantos A. Pantos (1989). "Echedemos, "The Second Attic Phoibos"". *[Hesperia](/source/Hesperia_(journal))*. **58** (3): 277–288.

- Kenneth J. Reckford (1987). [*Aristophanes' Old-and-new Comedy*](https://archive.org/details/aristophanesolda01reck). [University of North Carolina Press](/source/University_of_North_Carolina_Press).

- W. E. Thompson (1970). ["Notes on Andocides"](http://www.casa-kvsa.org.za/1970/AC13-10-Thompson.pdf) (PDF). *[Acta Classica](/source/Acta_Classica)*. **13**: 141–148.

- John S. Traill (1975). [*The political Organization of Attica*](https://archive.org/details/politicalorganiz0000trai). [American School of Classical Studies at Athens](/source/American_School_of_Classical_Studies_at_Athens).

- [Rodney S. Young](/source/Rodney_Young_(archaeologist)) (1951). ["An Industrial District of Ancient Athens"](https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/pdf/uploads/hesperia/146745.pdf) (PDF). *[Hesperia](/source/Hesperia_(journal))*. **20** (3): 135–288.

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