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    Acharnae or Acharnai (/əˈkɑːr.niː/; Ancient Greek: Ἀχαρναί) was a deme of ancient Athens. It was part of the phyle Oineis. Acharnae, according to Thucydides...
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    historically been an Arvanite settlement. Acharnes was named after the deme Acharnae (Ancient Greek: Ἁχαρναί), a subdivision of Athens in classical antiquity...
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  • Apollonius of Acharnae (Ancient Greek: Άπολλώνιος) was a heortologist and writer of ancient Greece who lived in the late 2nd century BCE. He was the author...
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  • Apollodorus (Greek: Ἀπολλόδωρος, translit. Apollodōros; 394 – after 343 BCE) of Acharnae in Attica was an Athenian politician known from several ancient forensic...
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    degree as a polis in miniature, and indeed some demes, such as Eleusis and Acharnae, were in fact significant towns. Each deme had a demarchos who supervised...
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  • immediately set upon by a mob of aged farmers and charcoal burners from Acharnae – tough veterans of past wars who hate the Spartans for destroying their...
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  • Hellespont Nağara, pronounced Nara Abydus Acanthus Athos Ierissos Erisso Acharnae near Acharnes and Ano Liosia, about 10 km north of Athens Acharnes Menidi...
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  • Pallene's league, along with Gargettus, Pallene, both neighboring Pithus, and Acharnae. The deme also celebrated its thesmophoria, led by two local women. Its...
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  • are incomplete fragments, primarily of an oath from this priesthood at Acharnae. From these circumstances, it has been surmised by some scholars (primarily...
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    Megacles of Athens Chariot-race None 485 (?) Nemean 2 (M) Timodemus of Acharnae Pancration None 485 (?) Nemean 7 Sogenes of Aegina Boys' Pentathlon Neoptolemus...
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