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IN ATTICA, WITH THEIR ANCIENT NAMES.
43
MODERN NAMES.
ANCIENT NAMES.
XA22IA.
XPY2A.
XTAO KEPA2A.
¥YXHK02d.
XA2TIA b.
ILLUSTRATIONS AND REMARKS.
tus, to assault the father; and the other forming
an ambuscade waited at Gargettos. They had
with them a trumpeter named Leus, of the vil-
lage Hagnous, who discovered this ambuscade to
Theseus. For this reason the people of Pallene
never espouse the women of Hagnous \ " Vide
Plut. in Theseo."
" See note on Xguora, in list of ancient names."
Petraici mons c.
• The recorded antipathy of the people of Pallene to those of
Hagnous appears, by Wheler, and afterwards by Chandler, to have
been mistakenly applied to the inhabitants of Angele. See Wheler,
p. 450. Chandler's Travels, V. II. C. XXXVII. [ed.]
b Kastia, or Cassia, is a large village north of Athens on the
route to Thebes, about four hours and a half distant, on ascend-
ing Mount Parnes. Here was the ancient demos of the same
name spoken of by Hesychius, (Xacria, to» uko Hi^ov.—XaoriEij,
otojj.0. Stipav,) but of which few traces remain. The inhabitants of
Kastia arc chiefly employed in making charcoal from the forests
of Mount Parnes, and on that account, like the Acharncnses of
old, have been subject to the contemptuous designation of " coal-
making " Kashiots. Stuart on proposing to accompany some Turks
to Constantinople, (a journey he was compelled to relinquish,
having barely escaped with his life from their treachery, when on
the road, near Salonica,) passed through this place, on ulti-
mately leaving Athens, in the route by Thebes and Livadia. In
his journal, he says, " We passed through ' Chashaw', a village
situated in the recess of a plain which runs in between the spurs
of Mount Parnes. I could find no account of any antiquities in
or near it, except an artificial channel, called Gianouri, which
conveys water from the foot of the mountain to the neighbouring
part of the plain of Athens. The next morning leaving Chashaw,
we immediately began to ascend Mount Parnes. In about two
hours we passed near Phylio Castro, the Phyle of the ancients."
The inhabitants of Kastia are honorably mentioned as having been
the first to take up arms against the Turks, at the insurrection, or
rather resurrection of Attica, in April, 1821. Mr. Waddington
thus describes it:—" At the first sound of discord in the Morea,
the peasants of Attica, headed by the Cassiotes, a brave and hardy,
and almost gigantic race, inhabiting the mountains towards Phyle,
assembled in great numbers in the villages at the foot of Mount
Pentelicus, where they were speedily joined by a body of Sala-
minians." They soon compelled the Turks to retire within the
Acropolis, the regular blockade of which was established on the
7th of May following. Meurs. Rel. Att. C. XI. Dodwell's
Travels, Vol. I. p. 502. Vol. II. p. 97, Note b. Waddington's
Visit to Greece in 1823-4, 2d Ed. p. 46. [ed.]
c Qu. ? XiAo-K=jaT«, and Petrosus Mons. D5D0
d A village on the west of Turko-Vouna, is called fspw.
See remarks on modern name Asomatos, in this list. [ed.]
43
MODERN NAMES.
ANCIENT NAMES.
XA22IA.
XPY2A.
XTAO KEPA2A.
¥YXHK02d.
XA2TIA b.
ILLUSTRATIONS AND REMARKS.
tus, to assault the father; and the other forming
an ambuscade waited at Gargettos. They had
with them a trumpeter named Leus, of the vil-
lage Hagnous, who discovered this ambuscade to
Theseus. For this reason the people of Pallene
never espouse the women of Hagnous \ " Vide
Plut. in Theseo."
" See note on Xguora, in list of ancient names."
Petraici mons c.
• The recorded antipathy of the people of Pallene to those of
Hagnous appears, by Wheler, and afterwards by Chandler, to have
been mistakenly applied to the inhabitants of Angele. See Wheler,
p. 450. Chandler's Travels, V. II. C. XXXVII. [ed.]
b Kastia, or Cassia, is a large village north of Athens on the
route to Thebes, about four hours and a half distant, on ascend-
ing Mount Parnes. Here was the ancient demos of the same
name spoken of by Hesychius, (Xacria, to» uko Hi^ov.—XaoriEij,
otojj.0. Stipav,) but of which few traces remain. The inhabitants of
Kastia arc chiefly employed in making charcoal from the forests
of Mount Parnes, and on that account, like the Acharncnses of
old, have been subject to the contemptuous designation of " coal-
making " Kashiots. Stuart on proposing to accompany some Turks
to Constantinople, (a journey he was compelled to relinquish,
having barely escaped with his life from their treachery, when on
the road, near Salonica,) passed through this place, on ulti-
mately leaving Athens, in the route by Thebes and Livadia. In
his journal, he says, " We passed through ' Chashaw', a village
situated in the recess of a plain which runs in between the spurs
of Mount Parnes. I could find no account of any antiquities in
or near it, except an artificial channel, called Gianouri, which
conveys water from the foot of the mountain to the neighbouring
part of the plain of Athens. The next morning leaving Chashaw,
we immediately began to ascend Mount Parnes. In about two
hours we passed near Phylio Castro, the Phyle of the ancients."
The inhabitants of Kastia are honorably mentioned as having been
the first to take up arms against the Turks, at the insurrection, or
rather resurrection of Attica, in April, 1821. Mr. Waddington
thus describes it:—" At the first sound of discord in the Morea,
the peasants of Attica, headed by the Cassiotes, a brave and hardy,
and almost gigantic race, inhabiting the mountains towards Phyle,
assembled in great numbers in the villages at the foot of Mount
Pentelicus, where they were speedily joined by a body of Sala-
minians." They soon compelled the Turks to retire within the
Acropolis, the regular blockade of which was established on the
7th of May following. Meurs. Rel. Att. C. XI. Dodwell's
Travels, Vol. I. p. 502. Vol. II. p. 97, Note b. Waddington's
Visit to Greece in 1823-4, 2d Ed. p. 46. [ed.]
c Qu. ? XiAo-K=jaT«, and Petrosus Mons. D5D0
d A village on the west of Turko-Vouna, is called fspw.
See remarks on modern name Asomatos, in this list. [ed.]