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Summary.

The tribal heroes as a group: history.

The tribal heroes as a group: mythology.

The individual heroes: Ajax.

The individual heroes: Aigeus.

The individual heroes: Akamas.

The individual heroes: Antiochos.

The individual heroes: Erechtheus.

The individual heroes: Hippothoon.

The individual heroes: Kekrops.

The individual heroes: Leos.

The individual heroes: Oineus.

The individual heroes: Pandion.

Images of the heroes: sculpture.

Images of the heroes: paintings.

Further Reading.

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Athenian Political Art from the fifth and fourth centuries: Images of Tribal (Eponymous) Heroes 

Amy C. Smith, edition of January 18 2003

Index locorum (sorted by citation)

Primary Sources
 
( * = link to author’s description; ** = link to work’s description)
 
(in text as: Agora I 286)
·    The individual heroes: Ajax
(in text as: IG II2, 1008.87)
·    The individual heroes: Ajax
(in text as: IG II2, 952)
·    The individual heroes: Aigeus
(in text as: Ilias Parva fr. 17 Kinkel)
·    The individual heroes: Akamas
(in text as: Iliupersis fr. 3 K)
·    The individual heroes: Akamas
(in text as: Schol. Hom. Od. 11.321)
·    The individual heroes: Akamas
(in text as: Athens, EM 13354/Athens)
·    The individual heroes: Akamas
(in text as: EM 13354a)
·    The individual heroes: Akamas
(in text as: IG II2, 4983)
·    The individual heroes: Akamas
(in text as: Agora XV 128)
·    The individual heroes: Akamas
(in text as: IG II2, 917)
·    The individual heroes: Akamas
(in text as: Marm. Par. 28 ff.)
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
(in text as: IG I2, 580)
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
(in text as: IG I2, 580)
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
(in text as: IG II2, 1146)
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
(in text as: IG II2, 1149, 1153)
·    The individual heroes: Hippothoon
(in text as: IG II2, 1163)
·    The individual heroes: Hippothoon
(in text as: Agora 15, 132 and 261)
·    The individual heroes: Hippothoon
(in text as: Marm. Par. A 1)
·    The individual heroes: Kekrops
(in text as: Philochorus FGrH 328 F 106) *
·    The individual heroes: Kekrops
(in text as: Philochorus FGrH 328 F 97) *
·    The individual heroes: Kekrops
(in text as: IG II2, 1156)
·    The individual heroes: Kekrops
(in text as: IG I3, 474.59-63)
·    The individual heroes: Kekrops
(in text as: IG II2, 2388)
·    The individual heroes: Kekrops
(in text as: Hsych. s.v.En d’Aithuia”)
·    The individual heroes: Kekrops
(in text as: Bekk. Anecd. 1.277.14)
·    The individual heroes: Leos
(in text as: IG I3, 244.C4-5)
·    The individual heroes: Leos
(in text as: IG II2, 847.51-52 = Dow 1937, 36)
·    The individual heroes: Leos
(in text as: IG II2, 1742)
·    The individual heroes: Leos
Ael. VH 12.28 (in text as: Ael. VH 12.28)
·    The individual heroes: Leos
Apollod. 1.8.3 (in text as: Apollod. 1.8.3) *
·    The individual heroes: Antiochos
Apollod. 3.14. (in text as: Apollod. 3.14.1) *
·    The individual heroes: Kekrops
Apollod. 3.14.1 (in text as: Apollod. 3.14.1) *
·    The individual heroes: Kekrops
Apollod. 3.14.6 (in text as: Apollod. 3.14.6) *
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
Apollod. 3.14.8 (in text as: Apollod. 3.14.8) *
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
Apollod. 3.15.1 (in text as: Apollod. 3.15.1)
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
Apollod. 3.15.4 (in text as: Apollod. 3.15.4) *
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
Apollod. 3.15.5 (in text as: Apollod. 3.15.5) *
·    The individual heroes: Aigeus
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
Apollod. 3.15.7 (in text as: Apollod. 3.15.7) *
·    The individual heroes: Aigeus
Apollod. E. 1.18 (in text as: Apollod. Epit. 1.18) *
·    The individual heroes: Akamas
Apollod. E. 1.5 (in text as: Apollod. Epit. 1.5) *
·    The individual heroes: Aigeus
Apollod 3.15.5 (in text as: Apollod 3.15.5) *
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
Aristoph. Birds 1128-1130 (in text as: Aristoph. Birds 1128, 1130) *
·    Images of the heroes: sculpture
Aristoph. Birds 559 (in text as: Aristoph. Birds 559) *
·    The individual heroes: Hippothoon
Aristoph. Kn. 95 (in text as: Aristoph. Kn. 95) *
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
Aristoph. Peace 1183 (in text as: Aristoph. Peace 1183) *
·    The tribal heroes as a group: history
Aristoph. Pl. 773 (in text as: Aristoph. Pl. 773) *
·    The individual heroes: Kekrops
Aristoph. Wasps 438 (in text as: Aristoph. Wasps 438) *
·    The individual heroes: Kekrops
Aristot. Ath. Pol. 21.6 (in text as: Aristot. Ath. Pol. 21.6) * **
·    The tribal heroes as a group: history
ARV2 1201.4 (in text as: ARV2 1201.4)
·    Images of the heroes: paintings
ARV2 1249.21 (in text as: ARV2 1249.21)
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
ARV 421.32 (in text as: ARV 421.32)
·    Images of the heroes: paintings
Choirilos Alope (in text as: Choirilos Alope)
·    The individual heroes: Hippothoon
Clem. Alex. Protr. 3.45 (in text as: Clem. Alex. Protr. 3.45)
·    The individual heroes: Kekrops
Dem. 60.27 (in text as: Ps.-Dem. 60.27ff) *
·    The tribal heroes as a group: mythology
Dem. 60.29 (in text as: Ps.-Dem. 60.29) *
·    The individual heroes: Leos
Dem. 60.30 (in text as: Ps.-Dem. 60.30) *
·    The individual heroes: Oineus
Dem. 60.31 (in text as: Ps.-Dem. 60.31) *
·    The individual heroes: Antiochos
Diod. 17.15 (in text as: Diod. 17.15)
·    The individual heroes: Leos
Diod. 4.37 (in text as: Diod. 4.37)
·    The individual heroes: Antiochos
Diod. 4.61.7 (in text as: Diod. 4.61.7)
·    The individual heroes: Aigeus
Diod. 4.62 (in text as: Diod. 4.62)
·    The individual heroes: Akamas
Eur. Alope (in text as: Eur. Alope)
·    The individual heroes: Hippothoon
Eur. Erech. (in text as: Eur. Erech.)
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
Eur. Erech. fr. 65.90 (in text as: Eur. Erech. fr. 65.90)
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
Eur. Erech. fr. 65.90-4 Austin (in text as: Eur. Erech. fr. 65.90-4 Austin)
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
Eur. Erech. fr. 65.93-94 (in text as: Eur. Erech. fr. 65.93-94)
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
Eur. Erech. fr. 92 (in text as: 92)
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
Eur. Ion. 1163-64 (in text as: Eur. Ion. 1163-64)
·    The individual heroes: Kekrops
Eur. Ion 1400 (in text as: Eur. Ion 1400)
·    The individual heroes: Kekrops
Eur. Ion 270-72 (in text as: Eur. Ion 270-72)
·    The individual heroes: Kekrops
Eur. Ion 281-82 (in text as: Eur. Ion 281-82)
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
Eur. Med. 1384 (in text as: Eur. Med. 1384 ff.)
·    The individual heroes: Aigeus
FGrH 329 F 2 (in text as: FGrH 329 F 2)
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
Harpoc. s.v. Eteoboutadai (in text as: Harpoc. s.v. “Eteoboutadai”)
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
Harpocration s.v. Aigeion (in text as: Harpocration s.v. “Aigeion”)
·    The individual heroes: Aigeus
Hdt. 5.66 (in text as: Hdt. 5.66) * **
·    The tribal heroes as a group: history
·    The individual heroes: Ajax
Hdt. 5.82 (in text as: Hdt. 5.82) * **
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
Hdt. 6.35.4 (in text as: Hdt. 6.35.4) * **
·    The individual heroes: Ajax
Hdt. 8.55 (in text as: Hdt. 8.55) * **
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
Hdt. 8.64 (in text as: Hdt. 8.64) * **
·    The individual heroes: Ajax
Hellanicus FGrH 323a F 6 (in text as: Hellanicus FGrH 323a F 6)
·    The individual heroes: Hippothoon
Hes. fr. 227 M-W (in text as: Hes. fr. 227 M-W)
·    The individual heroes: Hippothoon
Hes. WD. 568 (in text as: Hes. WD. 568)
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
Hes. WD 566 (in text as: Hes. WD 566)
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
Hom. Il. 2.257 (in text as: Hom. Il. 2.257)
·    The individual heroes: Ajax
Hom. Il. 2.546-51 (in text as: Hom. Il. 2.546-51)
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
Hom. Il. 2.557 (in text as: Hom. Il. 2.557)
·    The individual heroes: Ajax
Hom. Il. 7.199 (in text as: 7.199)
·    The individual heroes: Ajax
Hom. Od. 11.543-60 (in text as: Hom. Od. 11.543-60)
·    The individual heroes: Ajax
Hom. Od. 18.518 (in text as: Hom. Od. 18.518)
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
Hyg. Fab. 187 (in text as: Hyg. Fab. 187)
·    The individual heroes: Hippothoon
Hyg. Fab. 253 (in text as: Hyg. Fab. 253)
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
Hyg. Fab. 270 (in text as: Hyg. Fab. 270)
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
Hyg. Fab. 46 (in text as: Hyg. Fab. 46)
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
IG 1.2, 535 (in text as: IG I2, 535)
·    Images of the heroes: sculpture
IG 1.3, 258.9 (in text as: IG I3, 258.9)
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
IG 2.2, 1138 (in text as: IG II2, 1138)
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
IG 2.2, 1144 (in text as: 1144)
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
IG 2.2, 1157 (in text as: 1157)
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
IG 2.2, 2818 (in text as: IG II2, 2818)
·    The individual heroes: Leos
Lycophron 494 ff. (in text as: Lycophron 494 ff.)
·    The individual heroes: Akamas
Marm. Par. A 11 (in text as: Marm. Par. A 11)
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
Marm. Par. A 15 (in text as: Marm. Par. A 15)
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
Marm. Par. A 17 (in text as: Marm. Par. A 17)
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
Nonnus 39.210-13 (in text as: Nonnus 39.210-13)
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
Paus. 1.1.4 (in text as: Paus. 1.1.4) *
·    The individual heroes: Akamas
Paus. 1.14.7 (in text as: Paus. 1.14.7) *
·    The individual heroes: Aigeus
Paus. 1.19.3 (in text as: Paus. 1.19.3) *
·    The individual heroes: Antiochos
Paus. 1.2.6 (in text as: Paus. 1.2.6) *
·    The individual heroes: Kekrops
Paus. 1.22.5 (in text as: Paus. 1.22.5) *
·    The individual heroes: Aigeus
Paus. 1.23.8 (in text as: Paus. 1.23.8) *
·    Images of the heroes: sculpture
Paus. 1.26.5 (in text as: Paus. 1.26.5) *
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
Paus. 1.27.3 (in text as: Paus. 1.27.3) *
·    Images of the heroes: sculpture
Paus. 1.35.3-4 (in text as: Paus. 1.35.3-4) *
·    The individual heroes: Ajax
Paus. 1.38.4 (in text as: Paus. 1.38.4) *
·    The individual heroes: Hippothoon
Paus. 1.39.3 (in text as: Paus. 1.39.3) *
·    The individual heroes: Hippothoon
·    Images of the heroes: sculpture
Paus. 1.39.4 (in text as: 1.39.4) *
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
Paus. 1.41.6 (in text as: Paus. 1.41.6) *
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
Paus. 1.42.4 (in text as: Paus. 1.42.4) *
·    The individual heroes: Ajax
Paus. 1.5.2 (in text as: Paus. 1.5.2) *
·    The individual heroes: Antiochos
·    The individual heroes: Oineus
Paus. 1.5.3 (in text as: Paus. 1.5.3) *
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
Paus. 1.5.4 (in text as: Paus. 1.5.4) *
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
·    Images of the heroes: sculpture
Paus. 10.10.1 (in text as: Paus. 10.10.1) *
·    Images of the heroes: sculpture
Paus. 10.26.2 (in text as: Paus. 10.26.2) *
·    Images of the heroes: paintings
Paus. 10.31.1 (in text as: Paus. 10.31.1) *
·    Images of the heroes: paintings
Paus. 2.3.8 (in text as: Paus. 2.3.8) *
·    The individual heroes: Aigeus
Paus. 2.4.3 (in text as: Paus. 2.4.3) *
·    The individual heroes: Antiochos
Paus. 8.2.3 (in text as: Paus. 8.2.3) *
·    The individual heroes: Kekrops
Paus. 9.30.1. (in text as: Paus. 9.30.1.) *
·    Images of the heroes: sculpture
Paus. 9.33.1 (in text as: Paus. 9.33.1) *
·    The individual heroes: Kekrops
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
Pind. I. 6.45 (in text as: Pind. I. 6.45)
·    The individual heroes: Ajax
Plut. Mor. 841B (in text as: Plut. Mor. 841B)
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
Plut. Mor. 843A-C (in text as: 843A-C)
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
Plut. Sol. 10 (in text as: Plut. Sol. 10) *
·    The individual heroes: Ajax
Plut. Thes. 12.2-6 (in text as: Plut. Thes. 12.2-6) *
·    The individual heroes: Aigeus
Plut. Thes. 12.6 (in text as: Plut. Thes. 12.6) *
·    The individual heroes: Aigeus
Plut. Thes. 13 (in text as: Plut. Thes. 13) *
·    The individual heroes: Leos
Plut. Thes. 13.1 (in text as: Plut. Thes. 13.1) *
·    The individual heroes: Aigeus
Plut. Thes. 3.5 (in text as: Plut. Thes. 3.5) *
·    The individual heroes: Aigeus
Sappho 86D (in text as: Sappho 86D)
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
Sch. Aristoph. Ach. 961 (in text as: Sch. Aristoph. Ach. 961)
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
Sch. Aristoph. Frogs 477 (in text as: Sch. Aristoph. Frogs 477)
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
Sch. Hsch. Suid. s.v. dourios ippos (in text as: Sch. Hsch. Suid. s.v. “dourios ippos”)
·    Images of the heroes: sculpture
Sch. Thuc. 1.11 (in text as: Sch. Thuc. 1.11)
·    The individual heroes: Akamas
Soph. Aj. 202 (in text as: Soph. Aj. 202)
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
Soph. Aj. 574-75 (in text as: Soph. Aj. 574-75)
·    The individual heroes: Ajax
Soph. Aj. 861 (in text as: Soph. Aj. 861)
·    The individual heroes: Ajax
Soph. TGrF 4.24 (in text as: Soph. TGrF 4.24)
·    The individual heroes: Pandion
Strab. 6.83 (in text as: Strab. 6.83)
·    The individual heroes: Akamas
Suda lambda,261 (in text as: lambda,261)
·    The individual heroes: Leos
Suda lambda,262 (in text as: Suda, Phot. s.v. “Leokorion”)
·    The individual heroes: Leos
Suda rho,33 (in text as: Suda s.v. “Ramnousia Nemesis” (rho,33))
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
Tac. Ann. 11.14 (in text as: Tac. Ann. 11.14)
·    The individual heroes: Kekrops
Thuc. 2.15.1 (in text as: Thuc. 2.15.1) * **
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
Xen. Hunt. 1.9 (in text as: Xen. Hunt. 1.9)
·    The individual heroes: Ajax
Xen. Mem. 35.10 (in text as: Xen. Mem. 35.10)
·    The individual heroes: Kekrops

Secondary Sources
 
ARV2, 496.5.
·    The individual heroes: Hippothoon
ARV2 1453.14.
·    Images of the heroes: paintings
ARV2 1672.
·    Images of the heroes: paintings
Brommer, VL3 262 B 7.
·    Images of the heroes: paintings
Brommer, VL3 265 B 9.
·    Images of the heroes: paintings
BullCom 16 [1888] 488.
·    Images of the heroes: sculpture
C. Austin, Recherches de Papyrologie 4 [1967] 59-60.
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
C. Karouzos in ArchDelt 8 [1923] 82-102.
·    The individual heroes: Antiochos
CVA 2/1936, pl. 12.1a.
·    Images of the heroes: paintings
D. Whitehead, The Demes of Attica 508/7-ca 250 B.C. A Political and Social Study (Princeton 1986)..
·    Further Reading
E. Kearns, The Heroes of Attica. BICS-Suppl. 57 (1989)..
·    Further Reading
F. Bourriot, Recherches sur la nature du genos (Lille 1976)..
·    Further Reading
G.W. Elderkin, Hesperia 10 [1941] 113.
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
Hesperia 7 [1938] 18, 94 no. 15.
·    The individual heroes: Ajax
Hesperia 9 [1940] 116.
·    The individual heroes: Akamas
Hesperia 9 [1941] 59-66 no. 8.
·    The individual heroes: Leos
J.S. Traill, The Political Organization of Attica: a Study of the Demes, Trittyes and Phylai and their Representation of the Athenian Council. Hesperia Suppl. 14 (Princeton 1975)..
·    Further Reading
K. Jeppesen, The Theory of the Alternative Erechtheion [Aarhus 1987].
·    The individual heroes: Erechtheus
L. Deubner, Attische Feste (Berlin 1932)..
·    Further Reading
L. Farnell, Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality (Oxford 1921)..
·    Further Reading
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (Zurich and Munich 1981-1997)..
·    Further Reading
M.P. Nilsson, Cults, Myths, Oracles and Politics in Ancient Greece. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology. Pocketbook 44 (Göteborg 1986)..
·    Further Reading
N. Loraux, Les enfants d’Athéna (Paris 1981)..
·    Further Reading
Para, 380.5.
·    Images of the heroes: paintings
R.G. Osborne, Demos. The Discovery of Classical Attika (Cambridge 1985)..
·    Further Reading
Raubitschek 1949, 208 f., no. 176.
·    Images of the heroes: sculpture
S. Rotroff, Hesperia 47 [1978] 206-207.
·    The individual heroes: Leos
Stevens 1936, fig. 13.
·    Images of the heroes: sculpture
T. Gantz, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources (Baltimore 1933)..
·    Further Reading
T.L. Shear, Jr., The Monument of the Eponymous Heroes in the Athenian Agora. Hesperia 39 (1970) 145 ff..
·    Further Reading
U. Kron, Die zehn attischen Phylenheroen. Geschichte, Mythos, Kult und Darstellungen. AM-BH 5 (Berlin 1976)..
·    Further Reading

Index locorum (sorted by section)

Summary

There are no citations in this section.   (top)

The tribal heroes as a group: history

Aristoph. Peace 1183 (in text as: Aristoph. Peace 1183) ; Aristot. Ath. Pol. 21.6 (in text as: Aristot. Ath. Pol. 21.6) ; Hdt. 5.66 (in text as: Hdt. 5.66) .   (top)

The tribal heroes as a group: mythology

Dem. 60.27 (in text as: Ps.-Dem. 60.27ff) .   (top)

The individual heroes: Ajax

Hom. Il. 7.199 (in text as: 7.199) ; (in text as: Agora I 286) ; Hdt. 5.66 (in text as: Hdt. 5.66) ; Hdt. 6.35.4 (in text as: Hdt. 6.35.4) ; Hdt. 8.64 (in text as: Hdt. 8.64) ; Hom. Il. 2.257 (in text as: Hom. Il. 2.257) ; Hom. Il. 2.557 (in text as: Hom. Il. 2.557) ; Hom. Od. 11.543-60 (in text as: Hom. Od. 11.543-60) ; (in text as: IG II2, 1008.87) ; Paus. 1.35.3-4 (in text as: Paus. 1.35.3-4) ; Paus. 1.42.4 (in text as: Paus. 1.42.4) ; Pind. I. 6.45 (in text as: Pind. I. 6.45) ; Plut. Sol. 10 (in text as: Plut. Sol. 10) ; Soph. Aj. 574-75 (in text as: Soph. Aj. 574-75) ; Soph. Aj. 861 (in text as: Soph. Aj. 861) ; Xen. Hunt. 1.9 (in text as: Xen. Hunt. 1.9) .  
 
Secondary Sources: Hesperia 7 [1938] 18, 94 no. 15.   (top)

The individual heroes: Aigeus

Apollod. 3.15.5 (in text as: Apollod. 3.15.5) ; Apollod. 3.15.7 (in text as: Apollod. 3.15.7) ; Apollod. E. 1.5 (in text as: Apollod. Epit. 1.5) ; Diod. 4.61.7 (in text as: Diod. 4.61.7) ; Eur. Med. 1384 (in text as: Eur. Med. 1384 ff.) ; Harpocration s.v. Aigeion (in text as: Harpocration s.v. “Aigeion”) ; (in text as: IG II2, 952) ; Paus. 1.14.7 (in text as: Paus. 1.14.7) ; Paus. 1.22.5 (in text as: Paus. 1.22.5) ; Paus. 2.3.8 (in text as: Paus. 2.3.8) ; Plut. Thes. 12.2-6 (in text as: Plut. Thes. 12.2-6) ; Plut. Thes. 12.6 (in text as: Plut. Thes. 12.6) ; Plut. Thes. 13.1 (in text as: Plut. Thes. 13.1) ; Plut. Thes. 3.5 (in text as: Plut. Thes. 3.5) .   (top)

The individual heroes: Akamas

(in text as: Agora XV 128) ; Apollod. E. 1.18 (in text as: Apollod. Epit. 1.18) ; (in text as: Athens, EM 13354/Athens) ; Diod. 4.62 (in text as: Diod. 4.62) ; (in text as: EM 13354a) ; (in text as: IG II2, 4983) ; (in text as: IG II2, 917) ; (in text as: Ilias Parva fr. 17 Kinkel) ; (in text as: Iliupersis fr. 3 K) ; Lycophron 494 ff. (in text as: Lycophron 494 ff.) ; Paus. 1.1.4 (in text as: Paus. 1.1.4) ; Sch. Thuc. 1.11 (in text as: Sch. Thuc. 1.11) ; (in text as: Schol. Hom. Od. 11.321) ; Strab. 6.83 (in text as: Strab. 6.83) .  
 
Secondary Sources: Hesperia 9 [1940] 116.   (top)

The individual heroes: Antiochos

Apollod. 1.8.3 (in text as: Apollod. 1.8.3) ; Diod. 4.37 (in text as: Diod. 4.37) ; Paus. 1.19.3 (in text as: Paus. 1.19.3) ; Paus. 1.5.2 (in text as: Paus. 1.5.2) ; Paus. 2.4.3 (in text as: Paus. 2.4.3) ; Dem. 60.31 (in text as: Ps.-Dem. 60.31) .  
 
Secondary Sources: C. Karouzos in ArchDelt 8 [1923] 82-102.   (top)

The individual heroes: Erechtheus

Plut. Mor. 843A-C (in text as: 843A-C) ; Eur. Erech. fr. 92 (in text as: 92) ; Apollod. 3.14.8 (in text as: Apollod. 3.14.8) ; Apollod. 3.15.1 (in text as: Apollod. 3.15.1) ; Apollod. 3.15.4 (in text as: Apollod. 3.15.4) ; Eur. Erech. (in text as: Eur. Erech.) ; Eur. Erech. fr. 65.90 (in text as: Eur. Erech. fr. 65.90) ; Eur. Erech. fr. 65.90-4 Austin (in text as: Eur. Erech. fr. 65.90-4 Austin) ; Eur. Erech. fr. 65.93-94 (in text as: Eur. Erech. fr. 65.93-94) ; Eur. Ion 281-82 (in text as: Eur. Ion 281-82) ; Harpoc. s.v. Eteoboutadai (in text as: Harpoc. s.v. “Eteoboutadai”) ; Hdt. 5.82 (in text as: Hdt. 5.82) ; Hdt. 8.55 (in text as: Hdt. 8.55) ; Hom. Il. 2.546-51 (in text as: Hom. Il. 2.546-51) ; Hyg. Fab. 253 (in text as: Hyg. Fab. 253) ; Hyg. Fab. 46 (in text as: Hyg. Fab. 46) ; (in text as: IG I2, 580) ; (in text as: IG II2, 1146) ; (in text as: Marm. Par. 28 ff.) ; Nonnus 39.210-13 (in text as: Nonnus 39.210-13) ; Paus. 1.26.5 (in text as: Paus. 1.26.5) ; Plut. Mor. 841B (in text as: Plut. Mor. 841B) ; Soph. Aj. 202 (in text as: Soph. Aj. 202) ; Suda rho,33 (in text as: Suda s.v. “Ramnousia Nemesis” (rho,33)) ; Thuc. 2.15.1 (in text as: Thuc. 2.15.1) .  
 
Secondary Sources: C. Austin, Recherches de Papyrologie 4 [1967] 59-60; G.W. Elderkin, Hesperia 10 [1941] 113; K. Jeppesen, The Theory of the Alternative Erechtheion [Aarhus 1987].   (top)

The individual heroes: Hippothoon

(in text as: Agora 15, 132 and 261) ; Aristoph. Birds 559 (in text as: Aristoph. Birds 559) ; Choirilos Alope (in text as: Choirilos Alope) ; Eur. Alope (in text as: Eur. Alope) ; Hellanicus FGrH 323a F 6 (in text as: Hellanicus FGrH 323a F 6) ; Hes. fr. 227 M-W (in text as: Hes. fr. 227 M-W) ; Hyg. Fab. 187 (in text as: Hyg. Fab. 187) ; (in text as: IG II2, 1149, 1153) ; (in text as: IG II2, 1163) ; Paus. 1.38.4 (in text as: Paus. 1.38.4) ; Paus. 1.39.3 (in text as: Paus. 1.39.3) .  
 
Secondary Sources: ARV2, 496.5.   (top)

The individual heroes: Kekrops

Apollod. 3.14.1 (in text as: Apollod. 3.14.1) ; Aristoph. Pl. 773 (in text as: Aristoph. Pl. 773) ; Aristoph. Wasps 438 (in text as: Aristoph. Wasps 438) ; Clem. Alex. Protr. 3.45 (in text as: Clem. Alex. Protr. 3.45) ; Eur. Ion. 1163-64 (in text as: Eur. Ion. 1163-64) ; Eur. Ion 1400 (in text as: Eur. Ion 1400) ; Eur. Ion 270-72 (in text as: Eur. Ion 270-72) ; (in text as: Hsych. s.v.En d’Aithuia”) ; (in text as: IG I3, 474.59-63) ; (in text as: IG II2, 1156) ; (in text as: IG II2, 2388) ; (in text as: Marm. Par. A 1) ; Paus. 1.2.6 (in text as: Paus. 1.2.6) ; Paus. 8.2.3 (in text as: Paus. 8.2.3) ; Paus. 9.33.1 (in text as: Paus. 9.33.1) ; (in text as: Philochorus FGrH 328 F 106) ; (in text as: Philochorus FGrH 328 F 97) ; Tac. Ann. 11.14 (in text as: Tac. Ann. 11.14) ; Xen. Mem. 35.10 (in text as: Xen. Mem. 35.10) .   (top)

The individual heroes: Leos

Ael. VH 12.28 (in text as: Ael. VH 12.28) ; (in text as: Bekk. Anecd. 1.277.14) ; Diod. 17.15 (in text as: Diod. 17.15) ; (in text as: IG I3, 244.C4-5) ; (in text as: IG II2, 1742) ; IG 2.2, 2818 (in text as: IG II2, 2818) ; (in text as: IG II2, 847.51-52 = Dow 1937, 36) ; Suda lambda,261 (in text as: lambda,261) ; Suda lambda,262 (in text as: lambda,262) ; Plut. Thes. 13 (in text as: Plut. Thes. 13) ; Dem. 60.29 (in text as: Ps.-Dem. 60.29) ; Suda lambda,262 (in text as: Suda, Phot. s.v. “Leokorion”) .  
 
Secondary Sources: Hesperia 9 [1941] 59-66 no. 8; S. Rotroff, Hesperia 47 [1978] 206-207.   (top)

The individual heroes: Oineus

Paus. 1.5.2 (in text as: Paus. 1.5.2) ; Dem. 60.30 (in text as: Ps.-Dem. 60.30) .   (top)

The individual heroes: Pandion

Paus. 1.39.4 (in text as: 1.39.4) ; IG 2.2, 1144 (in text as: 1144) ; IG 2.2, 1157 (in text as: 1157) ; Apollod. 3.14.6 (in text as: Apollod. 3.14.6) ; Apollod. 3.14.8 (in text as: Apollod. 3.14.8) ; Apollod. 3.15.5 (in text as: Apollod. 3.15.5) ; Apollod 3.15.5 (in text as: Apollod 3.15.5) ; Aristoph. Kn. 95 (in text as: Aristoph. Kn. 95) ; ARV2 1249.21 (in text as: ARV2 1249.21) ; FGrH 329 F 2 (in text as: FGrH 329 F 2) ; Hes. WD. 568 (in text as: Hes. WD. 568) ; Hes. WD 566 (in text as: Hes. WD 566) ; Hom. Od. 18.518 (in text as: Hom. Od. 18.518) ; Hyg. Fab. 270 (in text as: Hyg. Fab. 270) ; IG 1.3, 258.9 (in text as: IG I3, 258.9) ; IG 2.2, 1138 (in text as: IG II2, 1138) ; Marm. Par. A 11 (in text as: Marm. Par. A 11) ; Marm. Par. A 15 (in text as: Marm. Par. A 15) ; Marm. Par. A 17 (in text as: Marm. Par. A 17) ; Paus. 1.41.6 (in text as: Paus. 1.41.6) ; Paus. 1.5.3 (in text as: Paus. 1.5.3) ; Paus. 1.5.4 (in text as: Paus. 1.5.4) ; Paus. 9.33.1 (in text as: Paus. 9.33.1) ; Sappho 86D (in text as: Sappho 86D) ; Sch. Aristoph. Ach. 961 (in text as: Sch. Aristoph. Ach. 961) ; Sch. Aristoph. Frogs 477 (in text as: Sch. Aristoph. Frogs 477) ; Soph. TGrF 4.24 (in text as: Soph. TGrF 4.24) .   (top)

Images of the heroes: sculpture

Aristoph. Birds 1128-1130 (in text as: Aristoph. Birds 1128, 1130) ; IG 1.2, 535 (in text as: IG I2, 535) ; Paus. 1.23.8 (in text as: Paus. 1.23.8) ; Paus. 1.27.3 (in text as: Paus. 1.27.3) ; Paus. 1.39.3 (in text as: Paus. 1.39.3) ; Paus. 1.5.4 (in text as: Paus. 1.5.4) ; Paus. 10.10.1 (in text as: Paus. 10.10.1) ; Paus. 9.30.1. (in text as: Paus. 9.30.1.) ; Sch. Hsch. Suid. s.v. dourios ippos (in text as: Sch. Hsch. Suid. s.v. “dourios ippos”) .  
 
Secondary Sources: BullCom 16 [1888] 488; Raubitschek 1949, 208 f., no. 176; Stevens 1936, fig. 13.   (top)

Images of the heroes: paintings

ARV2 1201.4 (in text as: ARV2 1201.4) ; ARV 421.32 (in text as: ARV 421.32) ; Paus. 10.26.2 (in text as: Paus. 10.26.2) ; Paus. 10.31.1 (in text as: Paus. 10.31.1) .  
 
Secondary Sources: ARV2 1453.14; ARV2 1672; Brommer, VL3 262 B 7; Brommer, VL3 265 B 9; CVA 2/1936, pl. 12.1a; Para, 380.5.   (top)

Further Reading

Secondary Sources: D. Whitehead, The Demes of Attica 508/7-ca 250 B.C. A Political and Social Study (Princeton 1986).; E. Kearns, The Heroes of Attica. BICS-Suppl. 57 (1989).; F. Bourriot, Recherches sur la nature du genos (Lille 1976).; J.S. Traill, The Political Organization of Attica: a Study of the Demes, Trittyes and Phylai and their Representation of the Athenian Council. Hesperia Suppl. 14 (Princeton 1975).; L. Deubner, Attische Feste (Berlin 1932).; L. Farnell, Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality (Oxford 1921).; Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (Zurich and Munich 1981-1997).; M.P. Nilsson, Cults, Myths, Oracles and Politics in Ancient Greece. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology. Pocketbook 44 (Göteborg 1986).; N. Loraux, Les enfants d’Athéna (Paris 1981).; R.G. Osborne, Demos. The Discovery of Classical Attika (Cambridge 1985).; T. Gantz, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources (Baltimore 1933).; T.L. Shear, Jr., The Monument of the Eponymous Heroes in the Athenian Agora. Hesperia 39 (1970) 145 ff.; U. Kron, Die zehn attischen Phylenheroen. Geschichte, Mythos, Kult und Darstellungen. AM-BH 5 (Berlin 1976)..   (top)