Echelidai

Estuary of Kephisos between the long walls in the west and the Phaleric walls in the east

Echelidai ( Greek  Ἐχελίδαι ) was an ancient Greek village in Attica . It was near the long walls in the mouth of the Kephisos in the area of ​​the Demos Xypete . After Stephanos of Byzantium , Echelidai was a demos.

Echelidai was named after the swampy ground ( ἕλος , swamp ) or after the mythical hero Echelos ( Ἔχελος ). Walther Judeich suspected that the hippodrome of Athens was located here.

literature

• Arthur Milchhoefer : Echelidai. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume V, 2, Stuttgart 1905, Col. 1911.

Individual evidence

1. ^ John S. Traill: The political organization of Attica. A study of the demes, tratyes, and phylai, and their representation in the Athenian Council . American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1975. pp. 86 f.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Stephanos of Byzantium : Ἔχελος
3. ^ Walther Judeich : Topography of Athens . Munich 1905. p. 456.