# Paeonidae

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Ancient Athenian deme

**Paeonidae** or **Paionidai** ([Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek_language): Παιονίδαι),[1] was a [deme](/source/Deme) of [ancient Attica](/source/Ancient_Attica), associated with the tribe (*[phyle](/source/Phyle)*) [Leontis](/source/Leontis).[2] It was apparently the same as the **Paeonia** or **Paionia** (Παιονίη), which Herodotus located as being below the Attic fortress of [Leipsydrium](/source/Leipsydrium).[3] The site of Paeonidae is located north of modern [Acharnes](/source/Acharnes) (formerly Menidi) at the foot of [Mount Parnes](/source/Mount_Parnes).[4]

According to the second-century geographer [Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)), the Paeonidae were supposed to have been named after [Paeon](/source/Paeon_(son_of_Antilochus)), the son of [Antilochus](/source/Antilochus), who was the son of [Nestor](/source/Nestor_(mythology)), and one of the [suitors of Helen](/source/Suitors_of_Helen), who fought in the [Trojan War](/source/Trojan_War).[5]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)), [2.18.9](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+2.18.9).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Humphreys, [pp. 937–938](https://books.google.com/books?id=M9F2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA937).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Smith 1854, [s.v. Attica](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0064%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DA%3Aentry+group%3D20%3Aentry%3Dattica-geo); Larcher, [p. 141](https://books.google.com/books?id=8gIubwJJAC4C&pg=PA141&dq=Paeonidae); [Herodotus](/source/Herodotus), [5.62.2](http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-eng1:5.62.2).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Talbert, p. 59; Åhlfeldt, [s.v. Paionidai, N Menidi](http://dare.ht.lu.se/places/31168.html).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Grimal, s.v. Paeon, p. 335; Larcher, [p. 141](https://books.google.com/books?id=8gIubwJJAC4C&pg=PA141&dq=Paeonidae); Smith 1873, [s.v. Paeon 2.](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aentry%3Dpaeon-bio-2); [Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)), [2.18.8–9](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+2.18.8).

## Bibliography

- Åhlfeldt, Johan, *[Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire](https://web.archive.org/web/20170808012018/http://dare.ht.lu.se/)*, [Lund University](/source/Lund_University).

- Grimal, Pierre, *The Dictionary of Classical Mythology*, Wiley-Blackwell, 1996, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-631-20102-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-631-20102-1).

- [Herodotus](/source/Herodotus); [*Histories*](/source/The_Histories_of_Herodotus), [A. D. Godley](/source/A._D._Godley) (translator), Cambridge, Massachusetts: [Harvard University Press](/source/Harvard_University_Press), 1920; [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0674991338](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0674991338). [Online version at the Perseus Digital Library](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hdt.+1.1.0).

- Humphreys, S. C., *Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis*, Oxford University Press, 2018. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780191092398](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780191092398).

- Larcher, Pierre-Henri, *Larcher's notes on Herodotus: Historical and critical comments on the history of Herodotus, with a chronological table, Volume 2*, Whittaker, 1844.

- [Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)), *Description of Greece*. W. H. S. Jones (translator). [Loeb Classical Library](/source/Loeb_Classical_Library). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. (1918). Vol. 1. Books I–II: [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-674-99104-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-99104-4).

- [Smith, William](/source/William_Smith_(lexicographer)) (1854), *[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography](/source/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Geography)*, London. [Online version at the Perseus Digital Library](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.04.0064)

- [Smith, William](/source/William_Smith_(lexicographer)) (1873), *[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology](/source/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Biography_and_Mythology)*, London. [Online version at the Perseus Digital Library](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.04.0104)

- [Talbert, Richard](/source/Richard_Talbert) ed. (2000). *[Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World](/source/Barrington_Atlas_of_the_Greek_and_Roman_World)*. Princeton University Press.

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