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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...
- 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)...
- Kekropis (Gr****: Κεκροπίς) was one of the phylai (tribes) of classical Athens, created during the reforms of Cleisthenes. It was named after the legendary...
- 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...
- Antiochus, the eponymous hero of Antiochis, one of the ten Athenian tribes (phylai). Originally Pandia may have been an epithet of Selene, but by at least...
- 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...
- less aristocratic. It is known that he reorganized and reconstituted the phylai and created the demes, two other groups to which all Athenian citizens belonged...
- 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...
- temple to Zeus Syllanius and Athena Syllania, divided the people into 'phylai' and into 'obai', and established a senate of thirty members, including...