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deme

In ancient Greece, the district inhabited by a group that formed an independent community. These small communities gradually became joined together into larger ones, and the word came to signify a country district, a township, or a parish. The 139 demes of Attica were the basic units of the government of Attica as remodelled by the Athenian statesman Cleisthenes 508 BC.



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Oedipus, the blind and banished King of Thebes, has come in his wanderings to Colonus, a deme of Athens, led by his daughter Antigone.
Oedipus At Colonus by Sophocles View in context
There is Crito, who is of the same age and of the same deme with myself, and there is Critobulus his son, whom I also see.
Apology by Plato View in context
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