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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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Amy C. Smith, edition of January 18 2003
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Delphi.
As usual in ancient Athenian affairs, politics and religion came hand in hand and, after due consultation with Apollo’s oracle at Delphi, each new tribe was assigned to a particular hero after whom the tribe was named; the ten tribal heroes are thus known as the eponymous (or name giving) heroes.
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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.
Dēmos · Classical Athenian Democracy · a Stoa Publication