Thyrgonidae or Thyrgonidai (Ancient Greek : Θυργωνίδαι) was a deme of ancient Attica, probably in the neighbourhood of Aphidna. Thyrgonidae, together with Aphidna, Perrhidae, and Titacidae, are said to have been removed from the phyle of Aeantis to another tribe. [1]
Its site is unlocated. [2]
Elefsina or Eleusis is a suburban city and municipality in Athens metropolitan area. It belongs to West Attica regional unit of Greece. It is located in the Thriasio Plain, at the northernmost end of the Saronic Gulf. North of Elefsina are Mandra and Magoula, while Aspropyrgos is to the northeast.
Attica, or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the entire Athens metropolitan area, which consists of the city of Athens, the capital of Greece and the core city of the metropolitan area, as well as its surrounding suburban cities and towns. It is a peninsula projecting into the Aegean Sea, bordering on Boeotia to the north and Megaris to the west. The southern tip of the peninsula, known as Laurion, was an important mining region.
Callimachus was the Athenian polemarch at the Battle of Marathon, which took place during 490 BC. According to Herodotus he was from the Attica deme of Aphidna.
Decelea, Dekéleia), was a deme and ancient village in northern Attica serving as a trade route connecting Euboea with Athens, Greece. It was situated near the entrance of the eastern pass across Mount Parnes, which leads from the northeastern part of the Athenian plain to Oropus, and from thence both to Tanagra on the one hand, and to Delium and Chalcis on the other. It was situated about 120 stadia from Athens, and the same distance from the frontiers of Boeotia. It was visible from Athens and from its heights the ships entering the harbour of Piraeus were visible as well.
Rhamnous, also Ramnous or Rhamnus, was an ancient Greek city in Attica situated on the coast, overlooking the Euboean Strait. Its ruins lie northwest of the modern town of Agia Marina in the municipality of Marathon.
Kallistratos of Aphidnae was an Athenian orator and general in the 4th century BCE.
Kolonos is a densely populated working-class district of Athens. It is named after the ancient deme, Hippeios Colonus.
The Swedish Institute at Athens was founded in 1946 and is one of 19 foreign archaeological institutes operating in Athens, Greece. The Institute is one of three Swedish research institutes in the Mediterranean, along with the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome and the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. Besides the premises in Athens the institute has an office in Stockholm and a guesthouse in Kavala. It also owns the Nordic Library along with the Danish Institute at Athens, the Finnish Institute at Athens and the Norwegian Institute at Athens.
Aphidna or Aphidnae or Aphidnai (Ἀφίδναι) was one of the twelve ancient towns of ancient Attica. It was celebrated in the mythical period as the place where Theseus deposited Helen of Troy, entrusting her to the care of his friend Aphidnus. When the Dioscuri invaded Attica in search of their sister, the inhabitants of Deceleia informed the Lacedaemonians where Helen was concealed, and showed them the way to Aphidna. The Dioscuri thereupon took the town, and carried off their sister. We learn, from a decree quoted by Demosthenes, that Aphidna was, in his time, a fortified town, and at a greater distance than 120 stadia from Athens. As an Attic deme, it belonged in succession to the tribes Aeantis, Leontis, Ptolemais, and Hadrianis.
Samuel (Sam) Karl Anders Wide was a Swedish classical archaeologist, ancient historian and philologist.
Aiantis was a phyle of ancient Attica with six demes: Aphidna, Marathon, Oenoe, Rhamnous, Tricorythus and Phalerum. It was named in honour of Ajax the Great.
Halae Araphenides or Halai Araphenides was a deme of ancient Attica, situated on its eastern coast between Brauron and Araphen, and was the harbour of Brauron, whence persons crossed over to Marmarium in Euboea.
Tricorythus or Trikorythos or Tricorynthus or Trikorynthos (Τρικόρυνθος) or Tricorinthus or Trikorinthos (Τρικόρινθος) was a deme of ancient Athens, in the plain of Marathon in northeast Attica. It along with Oenoe, Marathon, and Probalinthus, formed the Attic Tetrapolis, one of the twelve districts into which Attica was divided before the time of Theseus. The plain near Tricorythus was where the right of the Persian army were forced into the marsh during the Battle of Marathon.
Agryle was the name of two demoi of ancient Attica, a Lower Agryle and an Upper Agryle. They lay immediately south of the stadium in the city of Athens.
Aexone or Aixone was a deme of ancient Attica situated on the coast south of Halimus. Aixone, along with neighbouring Halai Aixonidai, belonged to the Kekropis tribe. Aexone was celebrated for its fisheries.
Titacidae or Titakidai was a deme of ancient Attica, probably in the neighbourhood of Aphidna. Titacidae, together with Aphidna, Perrhidae, and Thyrgonidae, are said to have been removed from the phyle of Aeantis to another tribe. Perrhidae is described as a deme in Aphidna; and that Titacidae was in the same locality may be inferred from the story of the capture of Aphidna by the Dioscuri in consequence of the treachery of Titacus.
Perrhidae or Perrhidai was a deme of ancient Attica, probably in the neighbourhood of Aphidna. Perrhidae, together with Aphidna, Titacidae, and Thyrgonidae, are said to have been removed from the phyle of Aeantis to another tribe. Perrhidae is described as a deme in Aphidna.
Maroneia was a settlement in ancient Attica, located near the Mines of Laurium. Its site is unlocated.
Cytherus or Kytheros, also known as Cytherum or Kytheron (Κύθηρον), was one of the twelve cities of ancient Attica, and afterwards a deme. Pausanias states that the nymphs of the river Cytherus in Elis were called Ionides from Ion, the son of Gargettus, when he migrated from Athens to Elis.
Pergase was a name of two demoi in ancient Attica of the phyle of Erechtheis: Upper Pergase and Lower Pergase. Aristophanes places these demoi on the road between Athens and Aphidna.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Attica". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography . London: John Murray.