Probalinthos

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Probalinthos ( Greek  Προβάλινθος ) was an Attic demos of the Phyle Pandionis . Together with Marathon , Trikorythos and Oinoe , he formed the Attic Tetrapolis . According to Strabo , Probalinthos was north of Myrrhinous and south of Marathon. The location of the demos could be roughly determined on the basis of grave steles of Probalinthians, it was located east of Mount Agriliki near today's Nea Makri . It is believed that Probalinthos existed since prehistoric times because the ending inthos a Pelasgic suggesting naming.

Despite belonging to the Tetrapolis, the Kleisthenian reform Probalinthos did not assign the phyle Aiantis , to which the other three cities belonged. It is assumed that Kleisthenes of Athens wanted to separate the followers of Peisistratos and thus weaken them. Well-known Probalinthier are the important Athenian statesman Eubulus and Euphiletus, the Archon Eponymos of the year 214/3 BC. Chr.

The exact location of the demo is not yet known. In 1879 the so-called marathon stone was found near the church of Saints Constantine and Saint Helena in Nea Makri, a stone from the middle of the 4th century BC. Chr. Tombstone. The inscription names the deceased Elpines, son of Elpinikos from Probalinthos. The name of his brother Eunikos, son of Elpinikos from Probalinthos, was later engraved underneath. A larger cemetery was found about 500 m to the north. A tombstone of Theogenes, son of Gyles from Probalinthos, was later found about 4 km north in Vrana near the Archaeological Museum of Marathon. Therefore some researchers suspected that Probalinthos was here. Today it is located further south near Agios Andreas, a suburb of Nea Makri.

Remarks

  1. ^ Strabo, Geographica 399.
  2. ↑ Ernst Curtius , Johann A. Kaupert (Ed.): Maps of Attika , Booklet III-VI: Explanatory Text , Berlin 1889, pp. 40, 52 ( online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / diglit.ub.uni-heidelberg.de  
  3. ^ Siegfried Lauffer (ed.): Greece, Lexicon of historical sites . Beck, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-33302-8 . Licensed edition Bechtermünz, Augsburg 1999, ISBN 3-8289-4144-3 , p. 568.
  4. ↑ IG II² 7292 ; John Camp : The "Marathon Stone" in New York . In: Metropolitan Museum Journal 31, 1996, pp. 5-10 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ IG II² 7296 .
  6. ^ Ministry of Culture, General Directorate of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage (Ed.): Marathon. Museum and Archaeological Sites . Athens 2008, ISBN 978-960-88795-2-2 , pp. 11-12 .

Coordinates: 38 ° 6 '  N , 23 ° 58'  E