Trittyes Ancient Greek singular trittys were population divisions in ancient Attica , established by the reforms of Cleisthenes in 508 BC . The name means thirtieth, and there were in fact thirty trittyes in Attica. Each tribe, or phyle of Athens was composed of three trittyes, one from the coast, one from the city, and one from the inland area. Trittyes were composed of one or more deme s demes were the basic unit of division in Attica. References Fine, John V.A. http books.google.com books?id NjeM0kcp8swC&printsec frontcover The Ancient Greeks A critical history Harvard University Press, 1983 ISBN 0 674 03314 0 Further reading Traill, John S., http books.google.com books?id vfdkHffQXl4C&printsec frontcover The political organization of Attica a study of the demes, trittyes, and phylai, and their representation in the Athenian Council , Princeton American School of Classical Studies at Athens ASCSA , 1975 AncientGreece stub Category Ancient Greek society Category Demoi de Trittys es Tritia fr Trittye hu Tritt sz nl Trittys pl Trytia ... more details
otheruses Image AGMA Pinakia.jpg thumb 250px Pinax Pinakia , identification tablets name, father s name, deme used for tasks like jury selection, Museum at the Ancient Agora of Athens In Ancient Greece , a deme or demos lang el was a subdivision of Attica , the region of Greece surrounding Classical Athens Athens . Demes as simple subdivisions of land in the countryside seem to have existed in the 6th century BC and earlier, but did not acquire particular significance until the reforms of Cleisthenes in 508 BC . In those reforms, enrollment in the citizen lists of a deme became the requirement for citizenship prior to that time, citizenship had been based on membership in a phratry , or family group. At this same time, demes were established in the city of Athens itself, where they had not previously existed in all, at the end of Cleisthenes reforms, Attica was divided into 139 demes. The establishment of demes as the fundamental units of the state weakened the genos gene , or aristocratic family groups, that had dominated the phratries. ref J.V. Fine, The Ancient Greeks A Critical History ref A deme functioned to some degree as a polis in miniature, and indeed some demes, such as Eleusis and Acharnae , were in fact significant towns. Each deme had a demarchos who supervised its affairs various other civil, religious, and military functionaries existed in various demes. Demes held their own religious festivals and collected and spent revenue. ref David Whitehead, Deme from the Oxford Classical Dictionary , Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth ed. ref Demes were combined with other demes from the same area to make trittys trittyes , larger population groups, which in turn were combined to form the ten tribes, or phyle s of Athens. Each tribe contained one trittys from each of three regions the city, the coast, and the inland area. List of Athenian demes according to tribes phylai Erechthe s Upper Agryle Lower Agryle Anagyrous Euonymon Themakos K ... more details
dominion is distinguished to three zones, each of which encloses ten trittys trittyes . Ten trittyes ... time, specific number of deme s are set at each trittys in order for the Athenian population to be uniformly ..., center of the ancient trittys of Paiania. The name Myrinous comes from the coastal deme that is located ... more details
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