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Phyle (Gr****: φυλή, romanized: phulē, lit. 'tribe, clan'; pl.
phylai, φυλαί;
derived from Gr**** φύεσθαι lit. 'to descend, to originate') is an ancient...
- po****tion groups,
which in turn were
combined to form the ten tribes, or
phylai of Athens. Each
tribe contained one
trittys from each of
three regions:...
- Gr****
language and customs. Gr**** word for
tribe was Phylē (sing.) and
Phylai (pl.), the
tribe was
further subdivided in
Demes (sing. Demos, pl. Demoi)...
- also been
attributed to Pandionis.
After the
creation of the
Macedonian phylai in late 4th
century BC,
three of the
demes (Kydathenaion, Kytheros, Upper...
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marble podium that bore the
bronze statues of the
heroes representing the
phylai (tribes) of Athens. The
monument was
surrounded by a
wooden fence on stone...
-
temple to Zeus
Syllanius and
Athena Syllania,
divided the
people into '
phylai' and into 'obai', and
established a
senate of
thirty members, including...
- from 400 to 500 men, and was
formed of 50 men from each of ten
clans or
phylai (φυλαί).
There is very
little evidence to
suggest that
Cleisthenes may have...
-
classical Athens,
there were ten taxiarchs, one for each of the city's
tribes (
phylai), a
subordinate to the
respective strategos. The
perhaps most
famous taxiarchs...
- year into "prytanies", one for each of the "
phylai", the
subdivisions of
Athenian citizens. The
number of
phylai, and
hence the
number of prytanies, varied...
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represents the
original ten
Phylai. This is
included to show the
distribution of city and
coastal trittys in the
original ten
phylai. Phyle, Deme,
Ancient Attica...
