Anaphlystus or Anaphlystos ( grc, Ἀνάφλυστος) was a coastal (paralia)
deme of
ancient Athens
Athens is one of the oldest named cities in the world, having been continuously inhabited for perhaps 5,000 years. Situated in southern Europe, Athens became the leading city of Ancient Greece in the first millennium BC, and its cultural achieve ...
, belonging to the
Antiochis phyle, on the west coast of Attica, opposite the island of
Eleussa, and a little north of the promontory of
Sunium, between that promontory and that of
Astypalaea. It bordered on
Aegilia to the west, to
Atene in the south-east and to
Amphitrope Amphitrope ( gr, Ἀμφιτρόπη) was a minor coastal (''paralia'') deme of ancient Attica, belonging to the Antiochis tribe (''phyle''), with two representatives in the Boule.
It was situated in the valley of Legrena, between mount Baphi to ...
to the east. To the northwest, it was separated from
Phrearrhioi Phrearrhii or Phrearrhioi or Phrearroi ( gr, Φρεάρριοι) was a deme of the coastal ('' paralia'') region of ancient Attica, belonging to the Leontis tribe (''phyle''), with nine to ten representatives in the '' Boule''.
It was situated ro ...
by the ''
Astike Hodos''.
It was a place of some importance. It had ten representatives in the
Boule.
Xenophon recommended the erection of a fortress here for the protection of the mines of Sunium.
Strabo
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speaks of a
paneium (Πανεῖον), or Grotto of
Pan, in the neighbourhood of Anaphlystus.
It was situated at a site called Agios Georgios (St. George),
close to the modern settlement of
Anavyssos, on the
Athens Riviera.
References
Ancient Athens
Populated places in ancient Attica
Former populated places in Greece
Demoi
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