Anaphlystus or Anaphlystos () was a coastal (paralia)
deme
In Ancient Greece, a deme or (, plural: ''demoi'', δήμοι) was a suburb or a subdivision of Classical Athens, Athens and other city-states. Demes as simple subdivisions of land in the countryside existed in the 6th century BC and earlier, bu ...
of
ancient Athens
Athens is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, 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 t ...
, 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
Cape Sounion (Modern Greek: Aκρωτήριο Σούνιο ''Akrotírio Soúnio'' ; ''Άkron Soúnion'', latinized ''Sunium''; Venetian: ''Capo Colonne'' "Cape of Columns") is the promontory at the southernmost tip of the Attica peninsula, ...
, between that promontory and that of
Astypalaea
In Greek mythology, Astypalaea (Ancient Greek: Ἀστυπάλαια ) or Astypale was a Phoenician princess as the daughter of King Phoenix and Perimede, daughter of Oeneus; thus she was the sister of Europa. In some accounts, her mother was ...
. It bordered on
Aegilia
''Aegilia'' is a genus of moths of the family Euteliidae.
Species
* ''Aegilia describens'' Walker, 858
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Year 858 ( DCCCLVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* Summer – King Louis the German, summoned by the disaffected Frankish nobles, invades the West Frankish Kin ...
* ''Aegilia indescribens'' Prout, 1922
References
''Aegilia'' at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and some other life forms''
Natural Histo ...
to the west, to
Atene in the south-east and to
Amphitrope to the east. To the northwest, it was separated from
Phrearrhioi by the ''
Astike Hodos''.
It was a place of some importance. It had ten representatives in the
Boule.
Xenophon
Xenophon of Athens (; ; 355/354 BC) was a Greek military leader, philosopher, and historian. At the age of 30, he was elected as one of the leaders of the retreating Ancient Greek mercenaries, Greek mercenaries, the Ten Thousand, who had been ...
recommended the erection of a fortress here for the protection of the mines of Sunium.
Strabo
Strabo''Strabo'' (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed. The father of Pompey was called "Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, Pompeius Strabo". A native of Sicily so clear-si ...
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
Anavyssos () is a town and a former municipality in East Attica, Greece located in the Athens Riviera. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Saronikos, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an are ...
, on the
Athens Riviera
Athens Riviera (Greek: Αθηναϊκή Ριβιέρα) is the coastal area in the southern suburbs of Athens, Greece from Piraeus to Sounio and Lavrio. It is located about from downtown Athens stretching from the southern suburbs of Athens to th ...
.
References
Ancient Athens
Populated places in ancient Attica
Former populated places in Greece
Demoi
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