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DIOMIA (Ancient demos) ATHENS
Diomeia. Eth. Diomeis. A demus belonging to the tribe Aegeis, consisting, like
Cerameicus, of an Outer and an Inner. Diomeia. The Inner Diomeia comprised the
eastern part of city, and gave its name to one of the city-gates in this quarter.
In the Outer Diomeia was situated the Cynosarges. (Steph., Suid. s. v. Diomeia;
Hesych. s. v. Diomeis; Steph., Hesych. s. v. Kunosarges; Schol. ad Aristoph. Ran.
664; Plut. de Exsil. l. c.) The Outer Diomeia could not have extended far beyond
the walls, since the demus Alopece was close to Cynosarges. and only eleven or
twelve stadia from the walls of the city. (Herod. v. 63; Aesch. c. Tim. p. 119,
Reiske.)
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
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