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Phyle (Gr****: φυλή, romanized: phulē, lit. 'tribe, clan'; pl.
phylai, φυλαί;
derived from Gr**** φύεσθαι,
phyesthai lit. 'to descend, to originate') is...
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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...
- 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)...
- 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:...
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Antigonis and
Demetrias (Ancient Gr****: Ἀντιγονίς, Δημητριάς) were two
tribes (
phylai)
added by the
ancient Athenians, in this order, to the
previous list of...
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Hippothontis (Gr****: Ιπποθοντίς) was one of the
phylai (tribes) of
classical Athens,
created during the
reforms of Cleisthenes. It was
named after the...
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classical Athens,
there were ten taxiarchs, one for each of the city's
tribes (
phylai), a
subordinate to the
respective strategos. The term
first appears in use...
- 400 to 500 men, and was
formed of 50 men from each of the ten
clans or
phylai (φυλαί) of Attica.
There is very
little evidence to
suggest that Cleisthenes...
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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...
- 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...
