Phlius
Phlius (Greek Φλειοῦς, Phleioûs, rare Φλιοῦς, Phlious, lat Phlius ) was an ancient, only ionic, then dorisierte city in the northeastern Peloponnese and the chief town of the famous for its wine region at the top Asopus.
Phlius had an aristocratic constitution over the longest period of its history and continued until after the Peloponnesian War to Sparta. 394 BC, the existing recently oligarchy was overthrown as a result of the democratic movement and only after long internal struggle and after the conquest of the city ( 379 BC) restored by Agesilaus II. Later Phlius joined the Achaean Confederation.
Although Phlius was secondary in political terms, it had in antiquity apparently a rich cultural life. From the town comes a whole range of Greek art and culture important people:
- Aristias, playwright, led in Athens an the satyr play
- Kleagoras, painter
- Pratinas, playwright
- Thrasyllos, musicians
- Timon ( about 320 BC -230 BC), philosopher and poet
Also Echecrates, which in Plato's dialogue Phaedo, the title character of Socrates ' doctrine of immortality reported, comes from Phlius ( Phaedo 57a ), and the research assumes that the heavily influenced by Pythagorean ideas dialogue plays in this same city even before a meeting of the Pythagoreans. The existence of a group of Pythagoreans in Diogenes Laertius testifies Phlius (VIII 46), which is also called Echecrates.
According to Pausanias, was in Phlius a place of worship of the lift. Your sanctuary it involved an asylum facility and with a festival called Kissotomoi ( Efeuschnitt ). There is also a temple of Hera with a marble cult statue exists in Phlius.
Even today the remains of the ancient city found near the village of Agios Georgios (37 ° 38 ' 36 "N, 22 ° 34' 33 " E). Above ground remained parts of the city wall, as well as a theater receive. On the gifts were also among others, the eastern gate of the city ( so-called " Corinthian Gate" ), a small, possibly Demeter sacred temple on the mountain town and a basilica from the Hellenistic period.