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lived here for a long time and, according to a legend, once prayed to the many statues present in the deme to be able to endure a defeat. Also in this deme the tyrant
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The place was called one of the most beautiful places in Athens, and it was important for the festival of
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and for the torch of the Promethians, which passed through here before reaching the
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claims that the name derives from the term κέραμος (
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Index

Kerameis (deme)
Kerameikos
Ancient Greek
deme
ancient Attica
Athens
Dipylon Gate
Pausanias
Dionysus
Ariadne
Herodotus
Panathenaic Games
Eleusinian Mysteries
Acropolis
Androgeus
Minos
Minotaur
Diogenes
Hipparchus
Harmodius and Aristogeiton
Dipylon
Pausanias
"3.1"
W. H. S. Jones
Perseus Digital Library
Thucydides
History of the Peloponnesian War
Lund University
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire
Richard Talbert

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