Pammenes Of Marathon
Pammenes of Marathon ( grc, Παμμένης Ζήνωνος Μαραθώνιος, Pammenēs Zēnōnos Marathōnios) was a leading Athenian statesman early in the reign of Augustus. He was a key figure in the introduction of the imperial cult at Athens, overseeing the construction of the Temple of Roman and Augustus on the Acropolis and serving as Athens' first priest of Roma and Augustus. He was one of the three leading figures in Athens in the Augustan period, alongside Antipater of Phlya and Eucles of Marathon. Life Pammenes belonged to a family that had become prominent on Athenian-controlled Delos in the second century BC and he belonged to two priestly clans, the Gephyraei and the Erysichthonidae. They were "deeply implicated in the restoration of Athenian religion in the late first century BC." His grandfather, also called Pammenes, was archon of Athens in 83/2 BC and his father, Zenon, was ''epimeletes'' (essentially governor) of Delos and archon in 54/3 BC. Zenon seems to ...
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