Phyle
place · 7 works · 7 mentions · 11 anchored passages
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On the Embassy
Place associated with the democratic return after oligarchic rule.
But when again a moderate government had been established, and the exiled democracy had come back from Phyle, with Archinus and Thrasybulus as the leaders of the popular party, we took the solemn oath with one another to forgive and forget an act which, in the judgment of all men, won for our state the reputation of the highest wisdom.
On the Mysteries
A place associated with resistance and conflict under the Thirty.
Then the Thirty came into power, and there followed the occupation of Phyle and Munychia, and those terrible struggles which I am loath to recall either to myself or to you.
Stromata
Attic fortress from which Thrasybulus led the Athenian exiles back to overthrow the Thirty Tyrants.
But for Thrasybulus too, when he was bringing back those who had been driven out from Phyle and wished to escape notice, a pillar became a guide, as he went through untrodden places.
Against Timocrates
A place connected with the democratic restoration and its heroes.
and yet he was one of the heroes of the march from Phyle and Peiraeus.
he was the son of that Archinus who occupied Phyle, and whom, after the gods, we have chiefly to thank for the restoration of popular government, and who had achieved success on many occasions both as statesman and as commander.
On the False Embassy
Place associated with the restoration of Athenian free government.
that more recently Thrasybulus, a son of Thrasybulus the great democrat, who restored free government from Phyle, should have paid a fine of ten talents that even a descendant of Harmodius and of the greatest of all your benefactors, the men to whom, in requital of their glorious deeds, you have allotted by statute a share of your libations and drink-offerings in every temple and at every public s …
On the Peace
The place associated with opponents of the Thirty and restoration of democracy.
And have not we, all of us, because of the madness of the Thirty, become greater enthusiasts for democracy than those who occupied Phyle?
Hellenica
A strong fortress in Attica seized by Thrasybulus, which serves as the base from which the resistance against the Thirty grows and eventually marches on Piraeus.
Presently Thrasybulus set out from Thebes with about seventy companions and seized Phyle, a strong fortress.
Now by this time about seven hundred men were gathered at Phyle, and during the night Thrasybulus marched down with them;
So they came back to the city in the snow, after losing a goodly number of their camp-followers by the attacks of the men in Phyle.