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ΚΟΙΛΗ (Αρχαίος δήμος) ΑΘΗΝΑ
Coele (Koile), a demus belonging to the tribe Hippothoontis. It lay partly within and partly without the city, in the valley between the Museium and the hills on the southern side of Ilissus. In this district, just outside the Melitian gate, were the sepulchres of Thucydides and Cimon.
ΜΕΛΙΤΗ (Αρχαίος δήμος) ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ
Melite (Eth. Meliteis), was a demus of the tribe Cecropis, west of
the Inner Cerameicus. The exact limits of this demus cannot be ascertained; but
it appears to have given its name to the whole hilly district in the west of the
Asty, comprising the hills of the Nymphs, of the Pnyx and of the Museium, and
including within it the separate demi of Scambonidae and Collytus. Melite is said
to have been named from a wife of Hercules. It was one of the most populous parts
of the city, and contained several temples as well as houses of distinguished
men. In Melite were the Hephaesteium, the Eury-saceium, the Colonus Agoraeus;
the temple of Hercules Alexicacus; the Melanippeium, in which Melanippus,
the son of Theseus, was buried (Harpocrat. s. v. Melanippeion); the temple of
Athena Aristobula, built by Themistocles near his own house (Plut. Them. 22);
the house of Callias (Plat. Parmen. p. 126, a.; Schol. ad Aristoph. Ran. 504);
the house of Phocion, which still existed in Plutarch's, time (Plut. Phoc. 18);
and a building, called the House of the Melitians, in which tragedies were rehearsed.
(Hesych. Phot. Lex. s. v. Meliteon oikos.) This is, perhaps, the same theatre
as the one in which Aesohines played the part of Oenomaus, and which is said to
have been situated in Collytus (Harpocrat. s. v. Ischandros; Anonym. Vit. Aesch.);
since the district of Melite, as we have already observed, subsequently included
the demus of Collytus. It is probable that this theatre is the one of which the
remains of a great part of the semicircle are still visible, hewn out of the rock,
on the western side of the hill of Pnyx. The Melitian Gate at the SW. corner of
the city were so called, as leading to the district Melite. Pliny (iv. 7. s. 11)
speaks of an oppidum Melite, which is conjectured to have been the fortress of
the Macedonians, erected on the hill Museium.
This extract is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
ΦΙΛΟΠΑΠΠΟΥ (Λόφος) ΑΘΗΝΑ
The Museium (to Mouseion) was the hill to the SW. of the Acropolis, from which
it is separated by an intervening valley. It is only a little lower than the Acropolis
itself. It is described by Pausanias (i. 25. § 8) as a hill within the city walls,
opposite the Acropolis, where the poet Musaeus was buried, and where a monument
was erected to a certain Syrian, whose name Pausanias does not mention. There
are still remains of this monument, from the inscriptions upon which we learn
that it was the. monument of Philopappus, the grandson of Antiochus, who, having
been deposed by Vespasian, came to Rome with his two sons, Epiphanes and Callinicus.
[Dict. of Biogr. vol. I. p. 194.] Epiphanes was the father of Philopappus, who
had become an Attic citizen of the demus Besa, and he is evidently the Syrian
to whom Pausanias alludes. This monument was built in a form slightly concave
towards the front. The chord of the curve was about 30 feet in length: in front
it presented three niches between four pilasters; the central niche was wider
than the two lateral ones, concave and with a semicircular top; the others were
quadrangular. A seated statue in the central niche was obviously that of the person
to whom the monument was erected. An inscription below the niche shows that he
was named Philopappus, son of Epiphanes, of the demus Besa (Philopappos Epiphanous
Besaieus). On the right hand of this statue was a king Antiochus, son of a king
Antiochus, as we learn from the inscription below it (basileus Antiochos basileos
Antiochou). In the niche on the other side was seated Seleucus Nicator (basileus
Eeleukos Antiochou Nikator). On the pilaster to the right of Philopappus of Besa
is the inscription C.IVLIVS C. F.FAB (i. e. Caius Julius, Caii filius, Fabia)
ANTIOCHVS PHILOPAPPVS, COS. FRATER ARVALIS, ALLECTVS INTER PRAETORIOS AB IMP.
CAESARE NERVA TRAIANO OPTVMO AVGVSTO GERMANICO DACICO. On that to the left of
Philopappus was inscribed Basileus Antiochos Philopappos, basileos Epiphanous,
tou Antiochou. Between the niches and the base of the monument, there is a representation
in high relief of the triumph of a Roman emperor similar to that on the arch of
Titus at Rome. The part of the monument now remaining consists of the central
and eastern niches, with remains of the two pilasters on that side of the centre.
The statues in two of the niches still remain, but without heads, and otherwise
imperfect; the figures of the triumph, in the lower compartment, are not much
better preserved. This monument appears, from Spon and Wheler, to have been nearly
in the same state in 1676 as it is at present; and it is to Ciriaco d'Ancona,
who visited Athens two centuries earlier, that we are indebted for a knowledge
of the deficient parts of the monument. (Leake, p. 494, seq.; comp. Stuart, vol.
iii. c. 5; Prokesch, Denkwurdigkeiten, vol. ii. p. 383; Bockh, Inscr. no. 362;
Orelli, Inscr. no. 800.)
Of the fortress, which Demetrius Poliorcetes erected on the Museium
in B.C. 229 (Paus. i. 25. § 8; Plut. Demetr. 34), all trace has disappeared.
There must have been many houses on the Museium, for the western side
of the hill is almost covered with traces of buildings cut in the rocks, and the
remains of stairs are visible in several places,--another proof that the ancient
city wall did not run along the top of this hill. There are also found on this
spot some wells and cisterns of a circular form, hollowed out in the rock, and
enlarging towards the base. At the eastern foot of the hill, opposite the Acropolis,
there are three ancient excavations in the rock; that in the middle is of an irregular
form, and the other two are eleven feet square. One of them leads towards another
subterraneous chamber of a circular form, twelve feet in diameter at the base,
and diminishing towards the top, in the shape of a bell. These excavations are
sometimes called ancient baths, and sometimes prisons: hence one of them is said
to have been the prison of Socrates.
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
ΚΟΙΛΗ (Αρχαίος δήμος) ΑΘΗΝΑ
An Attic deme a little beyond the Militian Gate at Athens. Cimon and Thucydides were buried here.
ΜΕΛΙΤΗ (Αρχαίος δήμος) ΑΘΗΝΑΙΩΝ
A deme of Attica which gave its name to one of the city gates.
Melite seems to have lain to the south of Ceramicus, and to have embraced the Hill of the Nymphs as well as the Areopagus. Collytus stretched to the northeast of the Acropolis, bordering on the west not only upon Ceramicus, but also upon Melite, as seems proved by a mention of a boundary-stone in Strabo. Diomea (Diomeia) may be placed next to Collytus, and between the Acropolis and Lycabettus. Ceriadae (Keiriadai), within the border of which, just below the precipice of the Nymphs' Hill, lay the depression, formed partly by nature, partly by quarrying, called the Barathrum (Barathron), adjoined Melite on the west; while Coele (Koile), consonant with its name, occupied the gully between the Hill of the Nymphs and the bed of the Ilissus. The core of these ancient districts is the rock-city in Melite. To the north of Ceramicus, and, apparently, at all times outside the city limits, lay Colonos Hippios, called from its hill (kolonos).
This extract is cited Sep 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
ΚΟΙΛΗ (Αρχαίος δήμος) ΑΘΗΝΑ
The valley of the Ilissus, name of Attic deme
Βρισκόταν μεταξύ των λόφων της Πνυκός και των Μουσών (Φιλοπάππου), δυτικά του Λουμπαρδιάρη (Αγίου Δημητρίου).
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