Xypete

 ( Populated Places In Ancient Attica ) 

Xypete (), also Xypeteum or Xypeteon (Ξυπετεών), was said to have been likewise called Troja (Τροία), because King Teucer led from hence an Attic colony into Phrygia,Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Art of Rhetoric 1.61 was a deme of ancient Attica. It was apparently near Peiraeeus or Phalerum, since Xypete, Peiraeeus, Phalerum, and Thymoetadae formed the τετράκωμοι,Julius Pollux, Onomasticon 4.105 which had a temple of Heracles in common (τετράκωμον Ἡρακλεῖον).

The site of Xypete is tentatively located northeast of Peiraieus.

Categories: Populated Places In Ancient Attica, Former Populated Places In Greece, Demoi

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