Hermus (Attica)

Hermus or Hermos (Ancient Greek: Ἕρμος) was a deme of ancient Attica. It lay on the sacred road to Eleusis, between the Cephissus and the Pythium, a temple of Apollo on Mount Poecilum, upon a rivulet of the same name. Here was the splendid monument of Pythonice, the wife of Harpalus.[1][2][3]

The site of Hermus is tentatively identified with Chaidari.[4][5]

  1. ^ Plutarch, Phoc. 22; Harpocration, s. v. Ἕρμος; Pausanias (1918). "37.4". 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.
  2. ^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, 13.594
  3. ^ Diodorus Siculus. Bibliotheca historica (Historical Library). Vol. 17.108.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.