(Φανόδημος), the author of one of those works on the legends and antiquities of Attica, known under the name of Atthides. The
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age and birthplace of Phanodemus are uncertain. It has been conjectured, from a passage in Proclus (ad Platon. Tim. p. 30, ed. Basil.), that Theopompus wrote against him, but the passage in Proclus does not prove this. Phanodeinus must in any case have lived before the time of Augustus, as he is cited both by the grammarian Didymus (Harpocrat. s. v. γαμηλία) and Dionysius of Halicarnassus (1.61). The birthplace of Phanodemus would, according to a passage of Hesychius (s. v. Φαλεοί), be Tarentum, since the latter speaks both of Phanodemus and Rhinthon as Ταρεντῖνοι; but it has been well conjectured, that we ought in this passage to read Ταρεντῖνος, thus making Rhinthon alone the Tarentine. It is much more probable that he was a native of the little island of Iclus, one of the Cyclades, since we know that he wrote a special work on that island. In any case he identified himself with Attica, and speaks with enthusiasm of its greatness and glory.