Xypete

Xypete (Ancient Greek: Ξυπέτη or Ξυπετῆ), also Xypeteum or Xypeteon (Ξυπετεών),[1] was said to have been likewise called Troja (Τροία), because Teucrus led from hence an Attic colony into Phrygia,[2][1][3] was a deme of ancient Attica. It was apparently near Peiraeeus or Phalerum, since Xypete, Peiraeeus, Phalerum, and Thymoetadae formed the τετράκωμοι,[4] which had a temple of Heracles in common (τετράκωμον Ἡρακλεῖον).[5]

The site of Xypete is tentatively located northeast of Peiraieus.[6][7]

References
  1. Strabo. Geographica. Vol. xiii. p.604. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
  2. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Art of Rhetoric 1.61
  3. Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
  4. Julius Pollux, Onomasticon 4.105
  5. Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. sub voce Ἐχελίδαι.
  6. Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  7. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 59, and directory notes accompanying.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Attica". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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