Kekropis (phyle)

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Kekropis ( Greek  Κεκροπίς ) was the seventh of ten administrative regions ( Phylen ), in which Kleisthenes during his reforms at the end of the 6th century. v. BC divided the Attic peninsula . Of the three earlier zones of Attica, Kekropis probably included the Trittyen Melite (from the urban area) and Aixone (from the coastal area) and Athmonon (from the inland).

The great tragedy poet Euripides came from the inland demos Phlya of the region ; the coastal demos Aixone is now called Glyfada and is a posh suburb of Athens . In the ancient urban district of Melite - located west of the Acropolis - the general Themistocles and (two centuries later) the philosopher Epicurus lived .

The phyle owes its name to the mythical king Kekrops. It is unclear whether it was the serpent- tailed Kekrops I or the Kekrops II (derived for the Attic king list) , but basically not essential.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herodotus , Histories 5,66.
  2. Ernst Meyer : Phlya. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 4, Stuttgart 1972, Col. 793.
  3. Otto Immisch : Kekrops . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, Col. 1021 f. ( Digitized version ).