Aiantis

Map of ancient Attica. Trittyes belonging to the phyle of Aiantis are numbered "9" and shaded pale yellow.

Aiantis (Ancient Greek: Αἰαντίς) was a phyle of ancient Attica with six demes:[1] Aphidna, Marathon, Oenoe, Rhamnous, Tricorythus and Phalerum.[2] It was named in honour of Ajax the Great.

Ruins of Rhamnous, a deme of the Aiantis.

Marathon is located within the boundaries of this place.[3]

It is attested by Plutarch that fifty-two members of the tribe of Aiantis died from wounds sustained in the Battle of Plataea.[4]

The playwright Aeschylus came from deme Eleusis in Aiantis.[5] His family were eupatrids.[6]

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  3. ^ P Vidal-Naquet - director of the Centre de Recherches comparées sur les Sociétés Anciennes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris c,1998 - The Black Hunter: Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World (p.91) translated by A Szegedy-Maszak, JHU Press, 9 Jul 1998 (reprint) ISBN 0801859514 [Retrieved 2015-04-18]
  4. ^ JD. Mikalson (William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia) - Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars Univ of North Carolina Press, 15 Sep 2003 ISBN 0807862010 [Retrieved 2015-04-18]
  5. ^ Sekunda, Nicholas (2002). Marathon 490 BC: The first Persian invasion of Greece. Campaign 108. Osprey Publishing. p. 53. ISBN 1841760005.
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