[3] Androtion began his political career not long before 385,[3] and the first position we can place him as holding is that of epistates, some time in the 370s BC.
[4] Androtion held various other positions during his career, including governing Arkesine on Amorgos for at least two years up to 357–6,[5] and being a member of the boule in 356/5 BC.
[6] In 355–4, Androtion was brought to trial by Euktemon and Diodorus, accused of illegally proposing a crown be awarded to the Council of Five Hundred at the end of its term of office.
[7] He is said to have gone into exile at Megara, and to have composed an Atthis, or annalistic account of Attica from the earliest times to his own days (Pausanias vi.
Professor Gaetano De Sanctis (in L'Attide di Androzione e un papiro di Oxyrhynchos, Turin, 1908) attributes to Androtion, the Atthidographer, a 4th-century historical fragment, discovered by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt (Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol.