The Pre-Kleisthenic Tribes and Trittyes

Abstract

Volume II considers the history, functions, and articulations with other aspects of Athenian social experience of groups in which kinship (patrifiliation) acted as a constitutive structuring principle, i.e.,corporate identities and organization. This chapter focuses specifically on the pre-Kleisthenic tribes and trittyes, and especially on classifications of persons, space, and time. It discusses amphiktyonies, festivals, ‘Ionian’ and ‘Dorian’ tribe names; the Twelve Towns; the Athenaion Politeia; tribes and phratries, including the ritual functions of tribes; trittyes; and naukrariai.