'''Diomea''' or '''Diomeia''' ({{langx|grc|Διόμεια}}) was a [[deme]] of [[ancient Attica]], located in the city of [[Ancient Athens|Athens]], both within and outside the walls of [[Themistocles]], in interior portion included the eastern sector of the city, and the external portion contained the [[Cynosarges]].<ref>Scoliast. in Aristoph. Frogs, 664.</ref><ref>[[Plutarch]], ''De exilio'' 6</ref> It was located south of the [[Ilisus]], between [[Alopece]] to the south and [[Ancyle]] to the east. A gate of Athens was called the [[Diomean Gate]]. Originally in the ''[[phyle]]'' [[Aigeis]], it was later in the ''phyle'' [[Demetrias (tribe)|Demetrias]]. == Description == According to the legend the deme was founded by some citizens of [[Collytus]] and [[Melite (Attica)|Melite]], whose head was [[Diomus (mythology)|Diomus]], worshiper and perhaps lover of [[Heracles]]. The first killing of a bull and the consummation of the sacred grain is attributed to Diomus. After the death of the demigod, Diomus offered him a sacrifice but a white dog disturbed the event, stealing the sacrificial meats and leaving them far away. At that point Diomus decided to found the Cynosarges sanctuary. Every five years a famous feast in honor of Heracles was held in Diomea.<ref>Scoliast. in Aristoph. Frogs, 651.</ref><ref>[[Aristotle]], [[Constitution of the Athenians (Aristotle)|Constitution of Athens]] 54.7</ref> This shrine was associated with a gymnasium in which the illegitimate youth or those with only one Athenian citizen parent studied. The cynical school founded by [[Antisthenes]] also gathered here at the beginning of 4th century BCE. At the Heracleion, [[Callimedon|Callimedon's]] dinner club of "the Sixty" met.
The deme, whose external part developed outside the walls of Athens, was not of a large extent, being bordered by Alopece which was 11 or 12 [[stadion (unit)|stadia]] from the city .<ref>{{Cite Herodotus|5.63}}</ref><ref>[[Aeschines]], ''c. Timarch'', 99.</ref>
The inhabitants of Diomea were known as arrogant and rude, so that [[Aristophanes]], for them, coined a new word, translatable with "Diomean arrogance."<ref>[[Aristophanes]], ''Wasps'' 83-84.</ref>
==People== *[[Callimedon]] (fl. 4th century BCE), orator and politician *[[Stratocles]] (fl. 4th-3rd centuries BCE), politician and writer
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