Alopece
{{short description|Ancient Athenian deme}}
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Alopece ({{langx|grc|Ἀλωπεκή|Alopeke}}), also spelt as Alopecae, was an asty-deme of the city of Athens,JG Cooper – [https://books.google.com/books?id=BsIIAAAAQAAJ&q=The+life+of+Socrates The Life of Socrates] R. Dodsley, 1750 [Retrieved – 21 March 2015] but located exterior to the city wall of Athens.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6ZFdAAAAQBAJ&q=Alopece&pg=PA56|author =Aeschines|author-link=Aeschines|others=translation and commentary by C. Carey, Professor of Greek at University College London c.2010 |title=Against Timarchus|publisher= University of Texas Press, 1 January 2010 | access-date=22 March 2015|isbn =9780292782778 |date =1 January 2010 }}The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/7407/Aeschines - Aeschines] [Retrieved 22 March 2015] Alopece belonged to the tribal group (phyle) of Antiochis.Herodotus (translated by Reverend W.Beloe) – [https://books.google.com/books?id=4kpXAAAAYAAJ&dq=Alopece+-+Antiochis&pg=PA263 (p.263)] T. Wardle., 1839 (489 pages) copy from the University of Virginia [Retrieved 30 May 2015]{{Cite DARE|31100}}{{Cite Barrington|59}} It was situated only eleven or twelve stadia from the city,Aesch. c. Timarch. p. 119, ed. Reiske and not far from Cynosarges.{{Cite Herodotus|5.63}} It possessed a temple of Aphrodite,Böckh, Inscr. n. 395 and also apparently one of Hermaphroditus.Alciphr. Ep. 3.37.
Burial site
The tomb of Anchimolius is near the temple of Hercules at Cynosarges, within Alopece.Herodotus, I Taylor – [https://books.google.com/books?id=PwNgAAAAcAAJ&dq=Alopece+Attica&pg=PA378 Herodotus. Translated from the Greek for the Use of General Readers; with Short Explanatory Notes. By Isaac Taylor] 1829 (Original from The British Library, Digitized 9 December 2014) [Retrieved 21 March 2015]Herodotus translated by Rev.W.Beloe – [https://books.google.com/books?id=bm5EAAAAMAAJ&dq=Herodotus+Alopece&pg=PA188 Volume 2 (p.188)] P.P. Berresford, 1828 (Original from the University of Michigan, Digitized 10 August 2007) [Retrieved 21 March 2015]
Natives
Lysimachus II – son of Aristides I, Aristides II – son of Lysimachus II, Thucydides II – son of Melesias II, Melesias II – son of Thucydides I, Socrates, son of Sophroniscus (of the tribe of Alopece[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZWEIAAAAQAAJ&dq=Alopece+Socrates&pg=PA460 Encyclopædia Britannica: or, A dictionary of arts and sciences, compiled by a society of gentlemen in Scotland [ed. by W. Smellie]. Suppl. to the 3rd. ed., by G. Gleig (p.460)] published 1810 & 1823 (Original from Oxford University, Digitized 24 May 2007) [Retrieved 22 March 2015]).Debra Nails (Professor of Philosophy, Michigan State University.)- [https://books.google.com/books?id=y3YRwNsnu54C&dq=Alopece&pg=PA312 The People of Plato (p.312)] Hackett Publishing {{ISBN|1603844031}} [Retrieved 21 March 2015]
Critobolus (c.5/4th century BC) son of Crito (also of the deme), both followers of Socrates.T Curnow (c.2006 Senior Lecturer: Division of Religion and Philosophy, St Martin's College, Lancaster) – [https://books.google.com/books?id=6lnwAgAAQBAJ&dq=philosophy+Alopece&pg=PA88 The Philosophers of the Ancient World: An A-Z Guide (p.88)] A&C Black, 22 June 2006 {{ISBN|0715634976}} [Retrieved 21 March 2015]
Hermogenes (c.445 to after 392 BC), was credited by Xenophon as being the source of much information about the latter part Socrates' life. In addition he is a participant in Cratylus, and is mentioned in Phaedo.A Preus (Distinguished Teaching Professor at Binghamton University) – [https://books.google.com/books?id=wjW_BgAAQBAJ&dq=philosophy+Alopece&pg=PA189 Historical Dictionary of Ancient Greek Philosophy (p.189)] Rowman & Littlefield, 12 February 2015 {{ISBN|1442246391}} [Retrieved 21 March 2015]
Megacles son of Hippocrates, Cleisthenes' nephew and leader of the Alcmaeonids. Also Callias, son of Cratias.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BWiPAgAAQBAJ&q=Athens+Alopece&pg=PA135|title=Aspects of Greek History 750–323BC: A Source-Based Approach|author =T Buckley|publisher=Routledge, 25 February 2010. 560 pages|access-date=22 March 2015|isbn=9781135281847|date=25 February 2010}}verified
Megacles V, son of Megacles IV. Melesius, a famous wrestler, father of Thucydides I.D Nails – [https://books.google.com/books?id=y3YRwNsnu54C&dq=Hippocrates+of+Alopece+leader&pg=PA340 The People of Plato p.340] [Retrieved 22 March 2015]
Satyrus, brother of Lacadaemonius, was arbitrator at a trial involving a dispute on the release of an enslaved woman, who had stolen from her owner prior to her release.Wolpert, Andrew; Kapparis, Konstantinos – [https://books.google.com/books?id=0Dok2FIanP0C Legal Speeches of Democratic Athens: Sources for Athenian History] p.204 Hackett Publishing, 9 September 2011 {{ISBN|1603846166}} Retrieved 7 February 2017Johnstone, Steven – [https://books.google.com/books?id=r5TvmDaNWRoC A History of Trust in Ancient Greece] p.15-16 University of Chicago Press, 1 October 2011 {{ISBN|0226405095}} Retrieved 7 February 2017
Property
Timarchus had a farm there (97), eleven or twelve stades from the city wall (99).
Records dating from the years 367 to 366, show a person from Lakiadai had acquired property in this deme, which was previously owned by a person affiliated with Xypetē.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-i27D4LBwVUC&q=deme+Ankyle&pg=PA125|author =E. Cohen|title=The Athenian Nation (p.125)|publisher=Princeton University Press, 10 January 2009 (reprint) 272 pages | access-date=30 May 2015|isbn =978-1400824663|date =10 January 2009}}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0064%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DA%3Aentry+group%3D7%3Aentry%3Dalopece-geo Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854)] William Smith, LLD, Ed.
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Category:Populated places in ancient Attica