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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.
The division of the Athenian city-state (polis) into urban (pink), inland (green), and coastal (blue) zones by CleisthenesCleisthenes divided the landscape in three zones—urban (), coastal and inland ()—and the 139 demes were organized into 30 groups called trittyes ("thirds"), ten for each of the zones and into ten tribes, or phylai, each composed of three trittyes, one from the coast ...
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]
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.
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 ...
Pritchard, David (2000). "Tribal Participation and Solidarity in Fifth-Century Athens: A Summary". Ancient History. 30 (2): 104–118. Traill, John S., The political organization of Attica: a study of the demes, trittyes, and phylai, and their representation in the Athenian Council, Princeton : American School of Classical Studies at Athens ...
The City of David (Hebrew: עיר דוד, romanized: ʿĪr Davīd), known locally mostly as Wadi Hilweh (Arabic: وادي حلوة), [1] is the name given to an archaeological site considered by most scholars to be the original settlement core of Jerusalem during the Bronze and Iron Ages.
Map of ancient Attica divided into its thirty trittyes.Those belonging to the same phyle are numbered and coloured accordingly.. The trittyes (/ ˈ t r ɪ t i. iː z /; Ancient Greek: τριττύες trittúes), singular trittys (/ ˈ t r ɪ t ɪ s /; τριττύς trittús) were part of the organizational structure that divided the population in ancient Attica, and is commonly thought to ...