(Ἄφιδνα, Ἀφίδναι; Áphidna, Aphídnai). Large Attic deme, sole component of the mesogeia trittys of the Aeantis [1] phyle, then of the Ptolemais; from AD 126/27 of the Hadrianis. 16 bouleutai .
The settlement site on the Great Kotroni, already important in the mid-Helladic era (assigned by Str. 9,1,20 to the Attic dodecapolis [2. 330 ff., especially 338 no. 6]), with its own mythic tradition ( Aphidnus), is virtually unresearched. The territory of the A. deme comprised a number of settlements known to us by name ( Eunostidae, Hyporeia, Clopidae, Perrhidae, P…