Cerameicus
place · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
the Cerameicus
in the texts
On the Estate of Dicaeogenes
An Athenian district containing the house that Dicaeogenes (II.) gave to Protarchides in place of a cash dowry for his sister.
) gave his sister in marriage to Protarchides of Potamos with a dowry of forty minae, but instead of paying the dowry to her in cash he made over to Protarchides the house which he possessed in the Cerameicus.
On the Estate of Philoctemon
An Athenian district near the postern gate where Euctemon installed Alce to manage a tenement-house selling wine, and where he came to spend most of his time.
The woman Alce was then installed by Euctemon to look after his tenement-house in the Cerameicus, near the postern gate, where wine is sold.
Euctemon, going there constantly to collect the rent, used to spend most of his time in the tenement-house, and sometimes took his meals with the woman, leaving his wife and children and his own home.
Parmenides
District outside the city wall of Athens where Pythodorus hosted Zeno and Parmenides.
He said that they lodged with Pythodorus outside of the wall, in Cerameicus, and that Socrates and many others with him went there because they wanted to hear Zeno’s writings, which had been brought to Athens for the first time by them.
Hellenica
The Athenian cemetery district before the city gates where the Lacedaemonians slain in the fighting near the theatre are buried.
In this attack Chaeron and Thibrachus, both of them polemarchs, were slain, and Lacrates, the Olympic victor, and other Lacedaemonians who lie buried before the gates of Athens in the Cerameicus.