Kakodaimonistai

Kakodaimonistai (ancient Greek κακοδαιμονισταί, singular κακοδαιμονιστής) was the name of a dining club in ancient Athens. They chose the name to ridicule the gods and Athenian custom. [Lysias, fragment 143.] One of the ways in which they did this, was by dining on unlucky days (ἡμέραι ἀποφράδες) to test the gods. [E.R. Dodds, "The Greeks and the Irrational" (1951), pp. 188–189.]

The gods, however, were not amused and punished the members of the club, among whom was Kinesias, harshly.Fact|date=April 2007

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