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502 MOUNT PARNES, VILLAGE OF KASHA.
The view from the summit of Pentelikon must be extremely grand,
as it is higher than Hymettos, and in a more central situation.
It is about half an hour from the monastery of Pentele to the
plain of Athens, and two hours more from the foot of the moun-
tain to the town. In Chandler's Athenian inscription, the penulti-
mate syllable of this mountain is long, being written UsvTBXuKog.
Parnes, or Parnetha,1 is the loftiest and most extensive of the
Attic mountains, forming the base of the triangle which terminates
its acutest point at the Sunium promontory ; the two other sides
being bounded by the sea. It begins near the north foot of Pente-
likon, and continues in a north-west direction to the Thriasian, or
Eleusinian plain, when it branches off towards the north, and finally
joins the chain of Cithaeron. It is intermingled with a multiplicity
of glens, crags, subordinate hills, and well-wooded rocks and preci-
pices, richly diversified with scenery, which is at once grand and
picturesque: its modern name is Ozia, or Nozea.
Its summit commands a view over a vast extent of country;
several villages, monasteries, and churches, are dispersed over
Parnes, with some interesting antiquities. The eastern declivity is
distinguished by a small Acropolis, probably Deceleia, which stands
on a pointed summit, visible from Athens at a distance of about
fifteen miles; its present name is Tatoi.
Kasha is a large village a little way up the south side of the
mountain, three hours from Athens. Here are a few imperfect
traces of antiquity ; indications perhaps of Xaa-noc, or XcurTieig, a
demos of the tribe of Oineis. The inhabitants of Kasha are chiefly
employed in making charcoal from the forests of the mountain, with
which they supply the Athenians, from whom they experience the
most contemptuous indignity : " coal-making Kashiot," is a com-
mon term of abuse throughout the country. The ancient Athe-
nians2 reviled and despised the Acharnenses for the same reason;
1 Deipnosoph. b. 5. c. 15. - Aristoph. in Acharn.
The view from the summit of Pentelikon must be extremely grand,
as it is higher than Hymettos, and in a more central situation.
It is about half an hour from the monastery of Pentele to the
plain of Athens, and two hours more from the foot of the moun-
tain to the town. In Chandler's Athenian inscription, the penulti-
mate syllable of this mountain is long, being written UsvTBXuKog.
Parnes, or Parnetha,1 is the loftiest and most extensive of the
Attic mountains, forming the base of the triangle which terminates
its acutest point at the Sunium promontory ; the two other sides
being bounded by the sea. It begins near the north foot of Pente-
likon, and continues in a north-west direction to the Thriasian, or
Eleusinian plain, when it branches off towards the north, and finally
joins the chain of Cithaeron. It is intermingled with a multiplicity
of glens, crags, subordinate hills, and well-wooded rocks and preci-
pices, richly diversified with scenery, which is at once grand and
picturesque: its modern name is Ozia, or Nozea.
Its summit commands a view over a vast extent of country;
several villages, monasteries, and churches, are dispersed over
Parnes, with some interesting antiquities. The eastern declivity is
distinguished by a small Acropolis, probably Deceleia, which stands
on a pointed summit, visible from Athens at a distance of about
fifteen miles; its present name is Tatoi.
Kasha is a large village a little way up the south side of the
mountain, three hours from Athens. Here are a few imperfect
traces of antiquity ; indications perhaps of Xaa-noc, or XcurTieig, a
demos of the tribe of Oineis. The inhabitants of Kasha are chiefly
employed in making charcoal from the forests of the mountain, with
which they supply the Athenians, from whom they experience the
most contemptuous indignity : " coal-making Kashiot," is a com-
mon term of abuse throughout the country. The ancient Athe-
nians2 reviled and despised the Acharnenses for the same reason;
1 Deipnosoph. b. 5. c. 15. - Aristoph. in Acharn.