Cydantidae or Kydantidai () was a
deme
In Ancient Greece, a deme or ( grc, δῆμος, plural: demoi, δημοι) was a suburb or a subdivision of Athens and other city-states. Demes as simple subdivisions of land in the countryside seem to have existed in the 6th century BC and ear ...
in
ancient Attica, originally of the ''
phyle
''Phyle'' ( gr, φυλή, phulē, "tribe, clan"; pl. ''phylai'', φυλαί; derived from ancient Greek φύεσθαι "to descend, to originate") is an ancient Greek term for tribe or clan. Members of the same ''phyle'' were known as ''symphylet ...
'' of
Aegeis Aigeis was a tribe (phyle) of Ancient Athens which contained twenty demes.
The phyle comprised twenty demes named Lower and Upper Ankyle, Araphen, Bate, Diomeia, Erchia, Erikeia, Gargettos, Halai, Hestiaia, Ikarion, Ionidai, Kollytos, Kolo ...
, after 224/3 BCE of the ''phyle'' of
Ptolemais, sending one or two delegates to the
Athenian Boule.
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.
Its site is located near
Mendeli Monastery.
People
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Nicias
Nicias (; Νικίας ''Nikias''; c. 470–413 BC) was an Athenian politician and general during the period of the Peloponnesian War. Nicias was a member of the Athenian aristocracy and had inherited a large fortune from his father, which was inve ...
, Athenian politician and general
References
Populated places in ancient Attica
Former populated places in Greece
Demoi
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