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Map 7: Major Greek tribes, as the ancient Greeks perceived them, based on the mythical account provided in the Catalogue of Women by pseudo-Hesiod (6th c. BC) Map 8: Archaic Greece Map 9: Major regions of mainland ancient Greece, and adjacent "barbarian" lands. Map 10: Ancient Regions of Epirus and Macedon.
Socrates belonged to this tribe. [10] [11] The tribe was in possession of the prytany in the Council, at the time of the events concerning the ten generals active for Athens' navy in the battle of Arginusae. [11] [12] [13] Aristeides was in command of this tribe's contingent during the Battle of Marathon. [14]
In the spring of 200 BC Tribe XIV. Attalis, named after Attalus I, was created following the same scheme used for the creation of the Egyptian Phyle: each tribe contributed a deme and a new deme, Apollonieis, was created in honour of Apollonis, wife of Attalus I of Pergamum. As a consequence there were again 12 tribes and 600 members of the Boule.
Attica after Cleisthenes' reforms with the ten "tribes", thirty "trittyes", and the demes. Phyle (Greek: φυλή, romanized: phulē, lit. ' tribe, clan '; pl. phylai, φυλαί; derived from Greek φύεσθαι, phyesthai lit. ' to descend, to originate ') is an ancient Greek term for tribe or clan. [1]
Acamantis (Greek: Ακαμαντίς, romanized: Akamantis) was one of the phylai (tribes) of classical Athens, created during the reforms of Cleisthenes. [1] It was named after the legendary hero Acamas , and included the demes of Cholargos , Eiresidai , Hermos , Iphistiadai , Kerameis , Kephale , Poros , Thorikos , Eitea , Hagnous , Kikynna ...
Attica (Greek: Αττική, Ancient Greek Attikḗ or Attikī́, Ancient Greek: [atːikɛ̌ː] or Modern:), or the Attic Peninsula, is a historical region that encompasses the entire Athens metropolitan area, which consists of the city of Athens, the capital of Greece and the core city of the metropolitan area, as well as its surrounding suburban cities and towns.
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Aigeis (Ancient Greek: Αἰγηΐς, romanized: Aigēis) was a tribe of Ancient Athens which contained twenty demes: Lower and Upper Ankyle, Araphen, ...