Phalerum
place · 4 works · 6 mentions · 10 anchored passages
Phaleron
in the texts
The Histories
Athenian port where Anchimolius' expedition lands and is destroyed, and which the Aeginetans later raid.
At last only one of all was left, who returned by himself to Phalerum.
First they laid waste the plain of Phalerum so that all that land could be ridden over and then launched their cavalry against the enemy's army.
While the Athenians were busy with the Boeotians, they descended on Attica in ships of war, and ravaged Phaleron and many other seaboard townships.
Birds
A port town near Athens known for its sardines, referenced by Trochilus.
At times he wants to eat a dish of sardines from Phalerum;
Symposium
The coastal deme near Athens where Apollodorus's house is located and from which he begins his walk into town.
The day before yesterday I chanced to be going up to town from my house in Phalerum, when one of my acquaintance caught sight of me from behind, some way off, and called in a bantering tone Hullo, Phalerian!
Economics
A place cited as an example of wet ground for planting decisions.
Oh, I should think that the land round Lycabettus and any like it is an example of dry ground, and the low-lying land at Phalerum and any like it of wet.