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| CHOLARGOS (Ancient demos) ATTIKI |
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It was probably located to the west of Cephisus, near the region of Kamatero and Liosia of today. The name of the ancient deme was given to the Cholargos of today by mistake (Papyrus-Larousse-Britannika encyclopedia).
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| GEFYREI (Ancient demos) ATTIKI |
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Gephyreis
The ancient deme was located near Iera Odos at the point where it crossed Cephisus river. There, there was a bridge, from which the Athenians crossed after their return from celebrating the Eleusinian Mysteries at Eleusis.
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| PILIKES (Ancient demos) EGALEO |
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Pelekes
Belonging to the tribe of Leontis, it was probably situated to the north of Athens, on the west side of Aegaleo and more spesifically in the area between Aegaleo and Parnitha mountain. It consisted "tricomia" along with the demes of Cropiae and Euporides.
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| Greek & Roman Geography (ed. William Smith) |
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| ELEOUS (Ancient demos) ATTIKI |
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Elaeus
Elaeus (Elaious, Steph.), of uncertain site, but placed by Leake at Liosia, a village two miles to the west of Aphidna, because he considers this name a corruption of Elaeus; but this is not probable.
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| ERMOS (Ancient demos) CHAIDARI |
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Hermus
Hermus (Hermos), lay on the sacred road to Eleusis, between the Cephissus and the Pythium, a temple of Apollo on Mt. Poecilum, upon a rivulet of the same name. Here was the splendid monument of Pythonice, the wife of Harpalus. (Plut. Phoc. 22; Harpocrat. s. v. Hermos; Paus. i. 37.4; Athen. xiii.; Diod. xvii. 108.)
| This is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks |
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Gephyra
Gephyra (Gephura, Gephureis), a place in Attica at the bridge over
the Cephissus, on the sacred road from Athens to Eleusis, where the initiated
assailed passengers with vulgar abuse and raillery, hence called psephurismoi.
(Strab. ix. p. 404; Suid. s. v. Gephurizon; Hesych. s. v. Gephuristai.)
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| PILIKES (Ancient demos) EGALEO |
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Peleces
Peleces (Pelekes), three demi forming a community, as trikomol (Steph. B. s. v. Eurupidai), and probably, therefore, adjacent. If the reading in Thucydides (ii. 19) is correct, dia Kropeias, these demi should be placed in the north of the Athenian plain, but many editors read dia Kekropias. Stuart, who has been followed by most modern writers, was led, by similarity of name, to place Peleces at the modern Belikas, near Marusi; but Ross maintains that the name of this Albanian village has no connexion with Peleces.
| This extract is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks |
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| Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities |
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| ERMOS (Ancient demos) CHAIDARI |
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Hermus
(to Hermos). A deme of Attica, belonging to the tribe Acamantis, on the road from Athens to Eleusis.
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| Local government Web-Sites |
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| AGIA VARVARA (Municipality (Kapodistrias plan)) ATTIKI |
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Municipality of Agia Varvara
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| AGII ANARGYRI (Municipality (Kapodistrias plan)) ATTIKI |
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Municipality of Agii Anargyri
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| AGIOS DIMITRIOS (Municipality (Kapodistrias plan)) ATTIKI |
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Municipality of Agios Dimitrios
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Municipality of Aegaleo
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Municipality of Ilion
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Municipality of Peristeri
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Municipality of Petroupolis
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| The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites |
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Daphne
Separating the Athenian and Thriasian plains is Mt. Aigaleos, which
the Sacred Way crosses by the same pass used by the main motor road. To the W
of the watershed stands the famous Byzantine monastery. In the exonarthex can
be seen a marble Ionic column and capital, probably of Hadrianic date, and in
the cloister Doric capitals from Classical times. Because of the association of
the name Daphne with Apollo, and because Pausanias saw a Sanctuary of Apollo at
about this location (1.37.6-7), there is a strong assumption that these and other
reported ancient remains should be thought of as coming from that sanctuary.
On the heights to the SW of the monastery, 10 minutes' walk away,
is a cave in which Pan and the nymphs were worshiped from the 5th c. B.C. Almost
2 km W of the monastery, immediately N of the highway, is a Classical Sanctuary
of Aphrodite, which Pausanias described as having before it a wall of rough stones
worth seeing (1.37.7). Today the most prominent remain is a vertical scarp of
rock pockmarked with niches for votive reliefs, part of a walled temenos that
also included a shrine, stoa, and propylon. A priest's house lies to the N of
the Sacred Way, at this point well preserved, while to the S is a rectangular
foundation of unknown purpose, whose extremely heavy walls may fit Pausanias'
description.
C.W.J. Eliot, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
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