Listed 12 sub titles with search on: Information about the place for wider area of: "ATHENS, SOUTH DISTRICT Prefectural district ATTIKI" .
NEA SMYRNI (Municipality) ATTIKI
ALIMOUS (Ancient demos) ALIMOS
(Halimous, Harpocrat.; Suid.; Steph.; Bekker, Anecd. i. p. 376; Schol. ad Aristoph. Av. 498), said to have been so called from ta halima, sea-weeds (Etym. M. s. v.), was situated on the coast between Phalerum and Aexone (Strab. ix. p. 398), at the distance of 35 stadia from the city (Dem. c. Eubulid. p. 1302), with temples of Demeter and Core (Paus. i. 31. § 1), and of Hercules. (Dem. pp. 1314, 1319.) Hence Leake places it at C. Kallimakhi, at the back of which rises a small but conspicuous hill, crowned with a church of St. Cosmas. Halimus was the demus of Thucydides the historian.
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
EXONI (Ancient demos) GLYFADA
Aexone (Aixone), situated on the coast south of Halimus (Strab.), probably near the promontory of Colias. Aexone was celebrated for its fisheries. (Athen. vii.; Hesych., Zonar., Suid., s. v. Aixonida)
XYPETI (Ancient demos) MOSCHATO
Xypete (Eupete, also Eupeteon, Strab. xiii. p. 604), said to have been likewise called Troja (Troia), because Teucrus led from hence an Attic colony into Phrygia. (Dionys. i. 61; Strab. l. c.; Steph. B.) It was apparently near Peiraeeus or Phalerum, since Xypete, Peiraeeus, Phalerum, and Thymoetadae formed the tetrakomoi (Pollux, iv. 105), who had a temple of Hercules in common (tetrakomon Herakleion, Steph. B. s. v. Echelidai; Bockh, Inscrip. vol. i. p. 123). Leake places Xypete at a remarkable insulated height, a mile from the head of the harbour of Peiraeeus, where are still seen some Hellenic foundations; but Ross remarks that this cannot be correct, since Xenophon (Hell. ii. 4. § 34) mentions this hill without giving its name, which he certainly would not have done if it had been Xypete.
This extract 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
ALIMOUS (Ancient demos) ALIMOS
A deme of Attica, a little south of Athens, and belonging to the tribe Leontis.
XYPETI (Ancient demos) MOSCHATO
A deme of Attica belonging to the tribe Cecropis, to the west of Athens.
KALLITHEA (Municipality) ATTIKI
PALEO FALIRO (Municipality) ATTIKI
KALLITHEA (Suburb of Athens) ATTIKI
A district between Athens and Phaleron. Modern building operations
have exposed parts of a cemetery dating from the 8th c. B.C. Reliefs, including
an Amazonomachy, from later monuments, are now in the Peiraeus Museum.
M. H. Mc Allister, 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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