Anagyrus or Anagyrous (Ancient Greek: Ἀναγυροῦς), also Anagyruntus or Anagyrountos (Ἀναγυροῦντος), was a deme of ancient Attica, belonging to the phyle Erechtheis, situated in the south of Attica near the promontory Zoster.[1][2] Pausanias mentions at this place a temple of the mother of the gods.[3]
The ruins of Anagyrus have been found near Vari.[4][5]
The ancient name was maintained until 600 AD, as mentioned by geographer and historian Stephanus of Byzantium.
Anagyrous is an important archaeological site that still remains unexplored, with traces of human habitation dating back to 3rd millennium BCE, that include:[6]
- The fortification and acropolis of Lathouriza (7th - 3rd century BC)
- The remains of 25 small houses
- A sacred altar
- Ten funerary precincts
- A major Mycenaean cemetery
- A cemetery and Palestrina of the Classical period
- The Cave of the Nymphs and Pan (converted to a sanctuary by Archedimus with statues of Cybele, Hermes, Pan and others)
Eumenes of Anagyrus and the Anagyrus Painter were from the town.
- ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. p. 398. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ Harpocrat., s.v.; Suda, s.v.; Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
- ^ Pausanias (1918). "31.1". 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
- ^ (Leake 1835, Amer Journal of Arch -1909, and others)