Pandionis (Phyle)
Pandionis ( Greek Πανδιονίς ) was the third of ten administrative regions ( Phylen ) into which Kleisthenes entered during his reforms at the end of the 6th century BC. BC divided the Attic peninsula . Of the three previous areas of Attica included Pandionis the Trittyen Kydathenaion (from the city area) Paiania (from inland) and Myrrhinus (the coastal area).
The speaker's father Demosthenes came from the inland demos Paiania of the region , and Socrates colleague Phaedrus was born in the southern coastal demos Myrrhinus . The urban district of Kydathenaion (sometimes called Kydathen for short) housed the sanctuary of Pandion and was the birthplace of both the comedy poet Aristophanes and the military leader Kleon .
The phyle owes its name to the mythical hero Pandion , who was later included in the Attic king list as Pandion II .
literature
- Ernst Meyer : Pandionis 2. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 4, Stuttgart 1972, column 452.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herodotus Histories 5,66.
- ↑ Plutarch Demosthenes 4.
- ↑ Ernst Meyer : Kydathenaion. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 3, Stuttgart 1969, column 390.
- ↑ Aristophanes Vespae 895.