Cydantidae

Cydantidae or Kydantidai (Ancient Greek: Κυδαντίδαι) was a deme in ancient Attica, originally of the phyle of Aegeis, after 224/3 BCE of the phyle of Ptolemais, sending one or two delegates to the Athenian Boule.[1]

This deme, along with that of Ionidae, venerated the kolokratai; these two demoi were the only ones, as far as we know, to venerate deities together.[2]

Its site is located near Mendeli Monastery.[3][4]

People

  • Nicias, Athenian politician and general

References

  1. Lohmann, Hans. "Cydantidae". Brill's New Pauly. Retrieved October 10, 2018.
  2. David Whitehead (1993). "The kolokratai of Kydantidai and Ionidai". Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 95: 159–162.
  3. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 59, and directory notes accompanying.
  4. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.


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