Aigeis
Aigeis is the tribe name of a phyle of Ancient Greece who as a tribal group inhabited a number of demes of the area of Greece known as Attica.
The phyle was comprised twenty demes named Lower and Upper Ankyle, Araphen, Bate, Diomeia, Erchia, Erikeia, Gargettos, Halai, Hestiaia, Ikarion, Ionidai, Kollytos, Kolonos, Kydantidai, Myrrhinoutta, Otryne, Phegaia, Philaidai, Plotheia. [1]
Erchia, Ikarion, Phegaia were some of the larger demes of the group. [2]
The quota of demes for Aigeis showed the greatest variety of all the phyles during the first and second periods (343 - 253 B.C.) of bouleutic government. [2]
At the time of the publication of an source published during 1851, the location of Bate was unknown. [3]
References
- ^ Bradley Hudson McLean. An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods from Alexander the Great Down to the Reign of Constantine (323 B.C.-A.D. 337). University of Michigan Press, 2002 reprint (516 pages) ISBN 0472112384. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
- ^ a b J.S. Traill. The Political Organization of Attica: A Study of the Demes, Trittyes, and Phylai, and Their Representation in the Athenian Council, Volumes 14-16. ASCSA, 1975 ISBN 0876615140 (134 pages) Volume 14 of Hesperia (Princeton, N.J.) Monographs (Archaeological Institute of America). Retrieved 2015-05-29.
{{cite book}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ George Grote - History of Greece, Volume 3 (p.94) John Murray, 1851 [Retrieved 2015-05-29]