Location information

Dirades

POTAMOS DEIRADIOTOU (Ancient demos) KERATEA
Paysanias calls it Potamous. In all probability its location is identified with the area around Daskalio bay 8,5 miles north to the coast of Lavrio.

Potamus (Potamos or Potamoi), the name of two demi, as appears from an inscription quoted by Ross (p. 92), though apparently only one place. It lay on the east coast north of Thoricus, and was once a populous place: it was celebrated as containing the sepulchre of Ion. (Strab. ix. pp, 398, 399; Paus. i. 31. § 2, vii. i. § 2; Plin. iv. 7. s. 11; Suid.; Harpocr.) Its harbour was probably the modern Dhaskalio; and the demus itself is placed by Leake at the ruins named Paleokastro or Evreokastro, situated on a height surrounded by torrents two miles to the south-west of Dhaskalio, a little to the south of the village Dardheza. The port Dhaskalio was probably, as Leake observes, the one which received the Peloponnesian fleet in B.C. 411. (Thuc. viii. 95.)

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)
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Potami

(Potamoi) or Potamus (Potamos). An Attic deme belonging to the tribe Leontis. Here the tomb of Ion was shown.

Perseus: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)
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