Bait
In the ancient Greece, Bait (in Greek old Ἀχαρναί / Akharnaí , plural) is vastest of the Dème S of Attique, located at the foot of the Mont Parnès, to 60 stage S in the north of Athens. It is the territory of the Œnéide tribe.
Bait is quoted by Pindare in its Second Néméenne (v. 16-17), dedicated to Timodème, originating in this dème and winner with the Pancrace: “Bait formerly/is known as noble. ” Fertile Ground, Acharnes produces cereals, wine and olive oil. During the Peloponnesian War, the dème provides 3000 Hoplite S, that is to say a tenth of the civic army. It is devastated in 431 av. J. - C. during the invasion of the Attic by the troops Spartans carried out by the king Archidamos II.
It was made famous for the comedy of Aristophane Acharniens (425 av. J. - C., first price of the Lénéennes), which puts in scene a citizen enthusiast of peace, Dicéopolis (“Justinet” in the translation of Victor-Henri Debidour), with the catches with quarrelsome Acharniens, represented in a burlesque way as coalmen.
One is unaware of almost all the ancient topography of Bait, which is in the current municipality of Ménidi, in the North-western suburbs of Athens. In February 2007, of work nevertheless put at the day part of the ancient theater - specifically of the steps of the koilon .
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