Location information

Listed 16 sub titles with search on: Information about the place for wider area of: "ATHENS, WEST DISTRICT Prefectural district ATTIKI" .

Information about the place (16)

Commercial WebSites

PETROUPOLI (Municipality) ATTIKI

General

CHOLARGOS (Ancient demos) ATTIKI
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).

Gephyreis

GEFYREI (Ancient demos) ATTIKI
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.

Pelekes

PILIKES (Ancient demos) EGALEO
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.

Greek & Roman Geography (ed. William Smith)

Elaeus

ELEOUS (Ancient demos) ATTIKI
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.

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD)

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Per...

Hermus

ERMOS (Ancient demos) CHAIDARI
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

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD)

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Per...

Gephyra

GEFYREI (Ancient demos) ATTIKI
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.)

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD)

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Per...

Peleces

PILIKES (Ancient demos) EGALEO
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

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD)