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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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Diodorus (Diod.).
Apollodorus (Apollod. E.).
Scholia (Sch. Thuc.).
Strabo (Strab.).
Lycophron (Lycoph.).
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Chersonnese.
Cyprus.
Phaleros.
Mythology: 
Akamas was a son of Theseus, and brother of Demophon (Ilias Parva fr. 17 Kinkel, Iliupersis fr. 3 K). His maternity was disputed, however (his mother is said to be Phaidra [Diod. 4.62; Apollod. Epit. 1.18], Ariadne [Schol. Hom. Od. 11.321], or Antiope, by association). He is associated with colonisations in the Chersonnese (with Antimachos: Sch. Thuc. 1.11), at Cyprus (Strab. 6.83; with Phaleros: Lycophron 494 ff.).
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Pausanias (Paus.).
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Kallithea.
Xypete.
Alopeke.
Phaleron.
Dipylon.
Worship: Akamas’ tribal shrine was at Kallithea (Xypete or Alopeke): see Athens, EM 13354/Athens, EM 13354a (ca.
Tribal connection: A fragmentary inscription, Agora XV 128 (IG II2, 917; published in Hesperia 9 [1940] 116), may record a tribal priesthood.
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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.
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