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]

  1. ^ a b 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. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.