Note 95 — Chapter I · Introduction
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Laws, XI. 920d. For the character of Athens’ patron deities cp. Proclus ad Plat. Timae. 52b, Athena Ergane (so called) as patroness of the works of craftsmen (δημιουργικῶν ἔργων); cp. Soph. fr. 844 (Jebb and Pearson); Plato, Protag. 321e, the common abode in which they (Athena and Hephaestus) practised their crafts (ἐφιλοτεχνείτην); Harpocrat. and Suid. s.v. χαλκεῖα, “A feast common to artizans (χειρώναξι) and especially to smiths”: Suid. adds that it was originally a public feast, not till later observed only by artizans (τεχνιτῶν): A. Mommsen, Heortologie, p. 313, thinks that the change may be due to Peisistratus.