(Ἀνδροτίων; Androtíōn). From Athens, author of an Athenian local history, student of Isocrates. As the only one among the Atthidographers also politically active: he began his career in 387 BC (T 3), occupied a military commanding role in the Social War (T 7) and was in 355/4 a member of a delegation to Mausolus, which was to clear the way for the Persian war (T 8). As a moderate democrat already in 355/4 and 353/2 fought by Demosthenes (or. 22 bzw. 24), he was finally banned to Megara in 343/2 (T 14).
There arose his Atthis, which in eight books reaches back to the myt…