Diomeia (demos)
Diomeia ( Greek Διόμεια ) was a small district in ancient Athens .
It belonged to the Phyle Aigeis and was located in the eastern half of the coastal trittys there , between Ankyle and Kollytos . You can get to Diomeia from the center by staying between Hadrian's Gate and Diocharestor .
What is now part of the inner-city area of Athens was then a peaceful area with a suburban character, with no handicraft businesses. Plutarch describes Diomeia as an “elegant, quiet quarter”.
The district owes its name to the Attic hero Diomos , a lover of Heracles . Diomos built an altar for the demigod. At the place where the games for Herakles Kynósarges first took place, the Gymnasion Kynosarges was later built.
literature
- Arthur Milchhoefer : Diomeia 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume V, 1, Stuttgart 1903, Col. 830 f.
- Ernst Meyer : Diomeia. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 2, Stuttgart 1967, column 57.
Individual evidence
- ^ Plutarch De exilio 6.