Athmonum or Athmonon ( Ancient Greek: Ἄθμονον), also Athmonia (Ἀθμονία), [1] was a deme of ancient Attica, situated on the site of the Marousi (Amarousion). [2] [3] The name of the modern village has been derived from Amarysia, a surname of Artemis, who was worshipped under this designation at Athmonum. [4] An inscription found near Marousi, in which the temenos of this goddess is mentioned, puts the matter beyond dispute. [5] Athmonum also possessed a very ancient temple of Aphrodite Urania. [6] The inhabitants of this deme appear to have been considered clever wine-dressers. [7]
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References
- ^ Harpocrat.; Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 59, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- ^ Pausanias (1918). "35.5". Description of Greece. Vol. 1. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
- ^ ὅρος Ἀρτέμιδος τεμένους Ἀμαρυδίας, Böckh, Inscr. n. 528.
- ^ Pausanias (1918). "14.7". Description of Greece. Vol. 1. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
- ^ Aristophanes, Pac. 190.
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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