{{Short description|Ancient Athenian deme}} '''Paeonidae''' or '''Paionidai''' ({{langx|grc|Παιονίδαι}}),<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+2.18.9 2.18.9].</ref> was a [[deme]] of [[ancient Attica]], associated with the tribe (''[[phyle]]'') [[Leontis]].<ref>Humphreys, [https://books.google.com/books?id=M9F2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA937 pp. 937–938].</ref> It was apparently the same as the '''Paeonia''' or '''Paionia''' (Παιονίη), which Herodotus located as being below the Attic fortress of [[Leipsydrium]].<ref>Smith 1854, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0064%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DA%3Aentry+group%3D20%3Aentry%3Dattica-geo s.v. Attica]; Larcher, [https://books.google.com/books?id=8gIubwJJAC4C&pg=PA141&dq=Paeonidae p. 141]; [[Herodotus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-eng1:5.62.2 5.62.2].</ref> The site of Paeonidae is located north of modern [[Acharnes]] (formerly Menidi) at the foot of [[Mount Parnes]].<ref>Talbert, p. 59; Åhlfeldt, [http://dare.ht.lu.se/places/31168.html s.v. Paionidai, N Menidi].</ref>
According to the second-century geographer [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], the Paeonidae were supposed to have been named after [[Paeon (son of Antilochus)|Paeon]], the son of [[Antilochus]], who was the son of [[Nestor (mythology)|Nestor]], and one of the [[suitors of Helen]], who fought in the [[Trojan War]].<ref>Grimal, s.v. Paeon, p. 335; Larcher, [https://books.google.com/books?id=8gIubwJJAC4C&pg=PA141&dq=Paeonidae p. 141]; Smith 1873, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aentry%3Dpaeon-bio-2 s.v. Paeon 2.]; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+2.18.8 2.18.8–9].</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==Bibliography== * Åhlfeldt, Johan, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20170808012018/http://dare.ht.lu.se/ Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire]'', [[Lund University]]. * Grimal, Pierre, ''The Dictionary of Classical Mythology'', Wiley-Blackwell, 1996, {{ISBN|978-0-631-20102-1}}. * [[Herodotus]]; [[The Histories of Herodotus|''Histories'']], [[A. D. Godley]] (translator), Cambridge, Massachusetts: [[Harvard University Press]], 1920; {{ISBN|0674991338}}. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hdt.+1.1.0 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]. * Humphreys, S. C., ''Kinship in Ancient Athens: An Anthropological Analysis'', Oxford University Press, 2018. {{ISBN|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 (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece''. W. H. S. Jones (translator). [[Loeb Classical Library]]. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. (1918). Vol. 1. Books I–II: {{ISBN|0-674-99104-4}}. * [[William Smith (lexicographer)|Smith, William]] (1854), ''[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography]]'', London. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.04.0064 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library] * [[William Smith (lexicographer)|Smith, William]] (1873), ''[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]'', London. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.04.0104 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library] * [[Richard Talbert|Talbert, Richard]] ed. (2000). ''[[Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World]]''. Princeton University Press.
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