Contribution to the historical topography and archaeology of the western side of Hymettus
Abstract
The thesis studies the Historical Topography and Archaeology of the western side of mount Hymettus, the side facing the asty of Athens, from Prehistoric Times to the late Roman Era. The introductory chapters present the previous archaeological research, the subject, the methodology, the geography and the historical outline. The following chapters examine the epigraphic evidence, the ancient written sources and the traveller’s texts, and then the Catalogue of ancient sites forms the main body of the study. The synthesis of the data was carried out by combining ancient written sources, information from archives, findings of surface surveys and results from rescue excavations in order to study and portray the archaeological and historical physiognomy of the western side of the mountain as well as the characteristics of habitation and of human activity in this environment, in the light of developments throughout Attica. The settlement pattern and a series of Attic demes were examined along ...
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