Kollytos

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Kollytos ( Greek  Κολλυτός Kollytós , sometimes also Kolyttós ) was a centrally located, busy district of ancient Athens west and south of the Acropolis .

Kollytos belonged as a demos to the phyle Aigeis . The name of the district was traced back to the eponymous hero Kolyttos . In the Council ( bulḗ ) of Athens, Kollytos traditionally had three councilors ( buleutaí ); in the first half of the 3rd century BC However, four council members from Kollytos are attested. Despite the urban character, Kollytos, like other demes, celebrated a rural festival of the god Dionysus with theatrical performances (both tragedies and comedies). The main street that served as a market was called stenōpós Kollytós ("narrow Kollytos").

The exact location of the district and its main street has been discussed controversially in modern research. What is certain is that Kollytos lay to the west and south of the Acropolis and immediately south of the Agora and adjoined the Demos Melite . In the 3rd century BC The scholar Eratosthenes established that there was no marking of the boundary between Kollytus and Melite.

Kollytos was the residence of the family of the famous Athenian philosopher Plato .

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  1. ^ Arnold W. Gomme : The Population of Athens in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC , Oxford 1933, p. 57.
  2. ↑ On this festival see David Whitehead: The Demes of Attica 508/7 - ca. 250 BC , Princeton 1986, pp. 212-22.
  3. ↑ See also Walther Judeich : Topographie von Athen , 2nd edition, Munich 1931, p. 169 and note 1, to the street p. 180; Ernst Honigmann : Kollytós . In: Pauly-Wissowa RE, Volume 11/1, Stuttgart 1921, Sp. 1106f .; John S. Traill: The Political Organization of Attica , Princeton 1975, p. 40; Rodney S. Young: An Industrial District of Ancient Athens . In: Hesperia 20, 1951, pp. 135-288, here: 140-143; William Kendrick Pritchett : The Attic Stelai. Part I. In: Hesperia 22, 1953, pp. 225-299, here: 275f .; David M. Lewis: Notes on Attic Inscriptions (II): XXIII. Who What Lysistrata? In: The Annual of the British School at Athens 50, 1955, pp. 1–36, here: 16f.
  4. ↑ See David Whitehead: The Demes of Attica 508/7 - ca. 250 BC , Princeton 1986, pp. 26-28.

Coordinates: 37 ° 57 '  N , 23 ° 43'  E