ABSTRACT
The Prytaneion decree, dated in the 430s bc, lists the categories of men entitled to σίτησις, regular meals in the Prytaneion. They include the current holders of certain offices, but among them are descendants of the tyrannicides Harmodios and Aristogeiton, the one nearest relative of each. No other holders of this privilege on a hereditary basis are included in that inscription; perhaps no others existed at that time. There is no other epigraphical evidence for hereditary holders before the late fourth century. The subject has been considered most recently by M. J. Osborne and A. S. Henry. Osborne finds literary evidence for four awards of σίτησις made in the period between the 430s and the 320s: Kleon (Aristophanes Horsemen 709, etc.), Iphikrates (Dem. 23.130), Diphilos (Dein. 1.43), and Demades (Dein. 1.101). In none of those cases does the evidence state that the privilege was to be inherited by descendants, though it may have been so.
