Phyle (demos)

Phyle was an Attic demos in antiquity , that is, a regional subunit of the Athens polis .

The demos belonged to the kleisthenic phyle Oineis. It was north of Athens in the eastern area of ​​the Parnes Mountains on the road that led to Tanagra and Thebes in Boiotien . This important passage was protected by a fortress named after the Demos (see Phyle (fortress) ).

literature

• Heinz Bellen : Phyle 1 . In: Der Kleine Pauly , Vol. 4 (1972), Col. 835.
• Charles WJ Eliot:  Phyle Attica, Greece . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .