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Once a village, now part of the almost unbroken urban development
from Athens to Kephissia (and beyond), Chalandri lies slightly N of the N limits
of both Hymettos and Tourkovouni, midway between them, and 4 km S of Marousi,
the ancient deme of Athmonon. Thus it once occupied an important position in the
Athenian plain alongside roads leading N to Pendeli and E to the Mesogaia. Many
antiquities have been found in this area, for example, graves from Late Classical
and Hellenistic times, an archaistic relief of Dionysos, and a Roman tomb of the
2d c. A.D., besides inscriptions and reused architectural blocks. The tomb has
its vaulting intact, and, with the addition of an apse, now serves as the Church
of the Panagia Marmariotissa.
Despite the lack of more specific evidence, it seems obvious that
Chalandri has inherited the location of an ancient village. Because it is known
that the demes of Athmonon and Phlya were in part contiguous (IG II2 2727.48-49),
and because all the demes around Marousi have been identified except to the S,
scholars agree that Chalandri must therefore be the site of Phlya. As such, it
possessed a telesterion restored by Themistokles (Plut. Them. 1.3), had a tradition
of mystic rites older than those at Eleusis (Hippol. Haer. 5.20), and was visited
by Pausanias (1.34.1), who recorded several other cults.
C.W.J. Eliot, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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