''Kakodaimonistai'' (

ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic peri ...

κακοδαιμονισταί, singular κακοδαιμονιστής, worshippers of the evil daemon) was the name of a dining club in

ancient Athens Athens is one of the oldest named cities in the world, having been continuously inhabited for perhaps 5,000 years. Situated in southern Europe, Athens became the leading city of Ancient Greece in the first millennium BC, and its cultural achieve ...

. They chose the name to ridicule the gods and Athenian custom. One of the ways in which they did this, was by dining on unlucky days (), holidays set apart for fasting, in order to test the gods.E.R. Dodds, ''The Greeks and the Irrational'' (1951), pp. 188–189.

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