[Agora Publication] Thompson (1970a): Notes on Attic Demes

Thompson, Wesley E ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Hesperia 39.1 1 64-67 10.2307_147552 ... 1970 ... Notes on Attic Demes

[Agora Publication] Wallace (1947): The Demes of Eretria

Wallace, William ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Hesperia 16.2 2 115-146 10.2307_146955 ... 1947 ... The Demes of Eretria

[Agora Publication] Traill (1982): An Interpretation of Six Rock-Cut Inscriptions in the Attic Demes of Lamptrai

Traill, John S ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Hesperia Supplement 19 162-171+229 10.2307_1353983 ... 1982 ... An Interpretation of Six Rock-Cut Inscriptions in the Attic Demes of Lamptrai

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[Agora Publication] Hesperia Suppl. 14 (1975): The Political Organization of Attica: A Study of the Demes, Trittyes, and Phylai, and Their Representation in the Athenian Council

Traill, J. H ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Using inscriptions recording council membership recovered by excavations in the Athenian Agora, the author presents a detailed reconstruction of the political geography of Attica. The reforms of the 6th-century ... 1975 ... The reforms of the 6th-century B.C. politician Cleisthenes organized Athenian citizens into ten tribes (phylai), divided into thirty “thirds” (trittyes) and 139 local units (demes). The author shows how this visionary arrangement was maintained almost unchanged until at least 200 B.C. and provided the basis for the whole representative system at the center of ancient democracy.