Cydathenaeum

{{Short description|Deme in ancient Athens}} '''Cydathenaeum''' or '''Kydathenaion''' ({{langx|el|Κυδαθήναιον}}) was one of the [[deme]]s 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]].<ref>Hendriks 2012, p. 21</ref> Its population is estimated to have been around 3,300–3,600 people.<ref>Hendriks 2012, p. 70</ref> Kydathenaion was one of the five demes located within the walls of the city of Athens (alongside [[Koile]], [[Kollytos]], [[Melite (deme)|Melite]], and [[Skambonidai]]).<ref>Hendriks 2012, p. 23</ref> It was in the very heart of Athens containing the [[Acropolis]],<ref>Young 1951, p. 140</ref> and possibly the [[Areopagus]].<ref>Young 1951, p. 142</ref>

Notable people from the deme include: * [[Cleon]] (died 422 BC), statesman and a general during the [[Peloponnesian War]]<ref name=reckford>Reckford 1987, p. 524, fn. 33</ref> * [[Andocides]] (440–390 BC), one of the ten [[Attic orators]]<ref>Thompson 1970, p. 143</ref> * [[Aristophanes]] (c. 446 – c. 386 BC), comic playwright<ref name=reckford /> * [[Nicochares]] (died c. 345 BC), comic poet<ref>{{cite web|author1=Balbina Bäbler|author-link=Balbina Bäbler|title=Nicochares|url=http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/nicochares-e822430|work=[[Der Neue Pauly]]|accessdate=29 June 2014}}</ref> * [[Echedemos]] (''fl.'' 190 BC), statesman, ambassador<ref>Pantos 1989, p. 282</ref> * [[Aristodemus of Cydathenaeum]]

==Notes== {{Reflist|2}}

==References== * Luke Hendriks (2012). ''[https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/19535 Athens and the Attic Demes]''. MA thesis, [[Leiden University]]. * {{cite journal|author1=Pantos A. Pantos|title=Echedemos, "The Second Attic Phoibos"|journal=[[Hesperia (journal)|Hesperia]]|year=1989|volume=58|issue=3|pages=277–288}} * {{cite book|author1=Kenneth J. Reckford|title=Aristophanes' Old-and-new Comedy|url=https://archive.org/details/aristophanesolda01reck|url-access=registration|date=1987|publisher=[[University of North Carolina Press]]}} * {{cite journal|author1=W. E. Thompson|title=Notes on Andocides|journal=[[Acta Classica]]|year=1970|volume=13|pages=141–148|url=http://www.casa-kvsa.org.za/1970/AC13-10-Thompson.pdf}} * {{cite book|author1=John S. Traill|title=The political Organization of Attica|url=https://archive.org/details/politicalorganiz0000trai|url-access=registration|date=1975|publisher=[[American School of Classical Studies at Athens]]}} * {{cite journal|author1=Rodney S. Young|author-link=Rodney Young (archaeologist)|title=An Industrial District of Ancient Athens|journal=[[Hesperia (journal)|Hesperia]]|year=1951|volume=20|issue=3|pages=135–288|url=https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/pdf/uploads/hesperia/146745.pdf}}

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