Tetrapolis (Attica)
The Tetrapolis ( Greek : Τετράπολις ) was a cultic union of four places in the Greek landscape of Attica in ancient times . According to legendary tradition, it was one of the twelve districts into which Attica was divided in the time before Theseus . The district lay on a plain in the northeastern part of Attica and contained the four places Marathon ( Μαραθών ), Probalinthos ( Προβάλινθος ), Trikorythos ( Τρικόρυθος ) and Oinoe ( Οἰνόη ). According to Strabo , the Tetrapolis was founded by Xuthos at the time of the Athenian king Erechtheus .
The Tetrapolis sent festive embassies, independent of the Athens Polis, to the sanctuaries of Delphi and Delos .
After the kleisthenischen Phylenreform, the coastal trittye of the Phyle Aiantis was also called Tetrapolis .
literature
- Ernst Meyer : Tetrapolis . In: Der Kleine Pauly , Vol. 5 (1975), Col. 632.
Individual evidence
- ^ Strabo, Geographica , 399.