Ancient Attica

thumb|View of Cape Sounion and the ruins of the Temple of Poseidon, Sounion|Temple of Poseidon looking west, with Patroklos island visible in the background thumb|Sunset at Cape Sounion Cape Sounion (Modern Greek: Aκρωτήριο Σούνιο Akrotírio Soúnio ; Άkron Soúnion, latinized Sunium; Venetian: Capo Colonne "Cape of Columns") is the promontory at the southernmost tip of the Attica peninsula, south of the town of Lavrio (ancient Thoricus), and 69.5 km (43.1 miles) southeast of Athens in the Athens Riviera. It is part of Lavreotiki municipality, East Attica, Greece.

cave in Greece

ancient road from Athens to Eleusis

thumb|Horos (boundary stone) of the trittyes of Pedion and Thria (both tribe of Oineis), in [[Piraeus, mid-5th century BC.]]

thumb|The division of Attica into urban (pink), inland (green), and coastal (blue) zones by Cleisthenes

Attic vase painter of the red-figure style

Agyrrhius/Agyrrhios () of the deme Collytus in Attica, was an Athenian politician in the final years of the 5th and early years of the 4th century BCE. His best-known accomplishment was the establishment of pay for attendance at meetings of the Ekklesia (Assembly), in reward for which (apparently) he was elected general in 390/89. He was also named as one of the proposers of a decree to reduce payments to the comic poets. Harpokration gave him credit for establishing the theorika (festival fund) so the poor could attend theater performances, but this attribution is contested by some scholars.

ancient Greek temple in Vari-Voula-Vouliagmeni Municipality, Greece

cave in Greece

The dēmarchos (; plural δήμαρχοι, dēmarchoi), anglicized as Demarch, is a title historically given to officials related to civic administration. In ancient Athens the title was given to the elected chief magistrate of each of the demes of Attica. In later literature, the term was used as a translation of the Roman office of . In the Byzantine Empire the dēmarchos was the leader of one of the racing factions (then known as "demes") of the Hippodrome of Constantinople. Largely concerned with ceremonial in the early centuries, from the 11th century the title was applied to various administrative