Aphytis

ΑΦΥΤΙΣ

Ἄφυτις (

Ammon was worshipped, at least from the time of the Spartan general Lysander

, as zealously as in Ammonium, sanctuary in Libya. According to Pausanias, the patron of Aphytis, Ammon Zeus, appeared in a dream to Lysander and urged him to raise the siege, which he did. The Temple of Ammon Zeus, whose few remaining ruins date to the 4th century BC structure.

During archaic and classical times Aphytis was a prosperous city, minting its own coins, which depicted the head of its patron, Ammon Zeus, the city's economy appears to have been mainly based on farming and vine-culture.

Thracian phoros of the Delian League

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During Hellenistic and Roman times the city minted coins again; an event possibly related to the fame of the Temple of Ammon Zeus. Strabo mentions Aphytis among the five cities, which existed in Pallene in the first century B.C. (Cassandreia, Aphytis, Mende, Scione and Sane). After the founding of the Roman colony of Cassandreia (43 BC), Aphytis was a vicus of this colony, dependent administratively on it.^[3]

Afytos is a village in the modern Kassandra peninsula.

References

Gerakina N. Mylona 'Aphytos tourist pamphlet' (1994).

^ Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Aphytis". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
ISBN 978-0-521-84934-0
(2006)

^ [1] Archived 2017-04-24 at the Wayback Machine D. C. Samsaris, The Roman Colony of Cassandreia in Macedonia (Colonia Iulia Augusta Cassandrensis), Dodona 16(1), 1987, p. 386

External links

Ancient Coinage of Aphytis ΑΦΥΤΑΙΩΝ Archived 2013-10-30 at the Wayback Machine

Authority control databases: Geographic

Pleiades

40°05′58″N 23°26′12″E / 40.099366°N 23.436606°E / 40.099366; 23.436606

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[1] Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Aphytis". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

[2] ISBN 978-0-521-84934-0
(2006)

[3] [1] Archived 2017-04-24 at the Wayback Machine D. C. Samsaris, The Roman Colony of Cassandreia in Macedonia (Colonia Iulia Augusta Cassandrensis), Dodona 16(1), 1987, p. 386

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