Upper Potamus, or Potamus Kathyperthen or Potamos Kathyperthen (), was a
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 Attica
The regions of ancient Greece were sub-divisions of the Hellenic world as conceived by the ancient Greeks, shown by their presence in the works of ancient historians and geographers or in surviving legends and myths.
Conceptually, there is no cl ...
. It lay on the east coast north of
Thoricus
Thorikos or Thoricus () was a city, and later a ''deme'' in the southern portion of ancient Attica, one of the twelve original settlements that were united in the ''synoikismos'' attributed to Theseus to form Archaic Athens. It was later a ''deme ...
, and was once a populous place: it was celebrated as containing the sepulchre of
Ion
An ion () is an atom or molecule with a net electrical charge. The charge of an electron is considered to be negative by convention and this charge is equal and opposite to the charge of a proton, which is considered to be positive by convent ...
.
Upper Potamus is tentatively located at
Kaisariani monastery
The Kaisariani Monastery () is an Eastern Orthodox monastery built on the north side of Mount Hymettus, near Athens, Greece.
History
The monastery was probably established in Byzantine Empire, Byzantine times in ca. 1100, which is the date of c ...
.
References
Populated places in ancient Attica
Former populated places in Greece
Demoi
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