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The tribal heroes as a group: history.
The tribal heroes as a group: mythology.
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: Oineus.
The individual heroes: Pandion.
Images of the heroes: sculpture.
Images of the heroes: paintings.
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Below are some suggestions for further reading.
- F. Bourriot, Recherches sur la nature du genos (Lille 1976).
- L. Deubner, Attische Feste (Berlin 1932).
- L. Farnell, Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality (Oxford 1921).
- T. Gantz, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources (Baltimore 1933).
- E. Kearns, The Heroes of Attica. BICS-Suppl. 57 (1989).
- U. Kron, Die zehn attischen Phylenheroen. Geschichte, Mythos, Kult und Darstellungen. AM-BH 5 (Berlin 1976).
- Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (Zurich and Munich 1981-1997).
- N. Loraux, Les enfants d’Athéna (Paris 1981).
- M.P. Nilsson, Cults, Myths, Oracles and Politics in Ancient Greece. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology. Pocketbook 44 (Göteborg 1986).
- R.G. Osborne, Demos. The Discovery of Classical Attika (Cambridge 1985).
- T.L. Shear, Jr., The Monument of the Eponymous Heroes in the Athenian Agora. Hesperia 39 (1970) 145 ff.
- 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).
- D. Whitehead, The Demes of Attica 508/7-ca 250 B.C. A Political and Social Study (Princeton 1986).
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When using this article as a resource, cite it thus:
Amy C. Smith, “Athenian Political Art from the fifth and fourth centuries: Images of Tribal (Eponymous) Heroes,” in C.W. Blackwell, ed., Dēmos: Classical Athenian Democracy (A. Mahoney and R. Scaife, edd., The Stoa: a consortium for electronic publication in the humanities [www.stoa.org]) edition of January 18 2003. Contact: cwb@stoa.org.
© January 18 2003, Amy C. Smith. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
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