Qualla: Anagyrous https://qualla.com/anagyrous en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:40:37 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/z/anagyrous-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Anagyrous https://qualla.com/anagyrous Anagyrous: Introduction https://qualla.com/anagyrous/ Photo credit Picture taken by Marcus Cyron (photo), CC BY-SA 3.0. Aristophanes got a laugh out of it. In his comedy Lysistrata, when women enter from the deme of Anagyrous, a character named Calonice quips that they have "stirred up Anagyrous" — a pun on the Greek verb for shaking the Anagyris plant, a foul-smelling shrub that grew abundantly in the local valley. Shake an Anagyris and the stench is considerable. The joke worked because Athenian audiences knew the place, knew the plant, and probably knew the secondary implication: that the inhabitants of Anagyrous had a reputation for being, in the bluntest terms, not entirely fresh. A deme famous enough to be mocked in a play, obscure enough that its ruins still lie largely unexcavated — this is Anagyrous.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/z/anagyrous-wp/sw8z-anagyrous-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Anagyrous: A Deme of the Erechtheis https://qualla.com/anagyrous/ Photo credit C messier, CC0. Anagyrous — also written Anagyrus, Anagyruntus, or Anagyrountos (Ἀναγυροῦντος) — was one of the demes of ancient Attica, the civic subdivisions through which Athenian citizenship was organized. It belonged to the phyle Erechtheis, one of the ten tribal divisions of Attica. The de...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/z/anagyrous-wp/sw8z-anagyrous-a-deme-of-the-erechtheis.mp3 0:06 2 full Anagyrous: What the Ground Holds https://qualla.com/anagyrous/ Photo credit C messier, CC0. The ruins of Anagyrous were found near the modern village of Vari, and what the archaeologists have identified — despite most of the site remaining unexcavated — suggests a depth of occupation that spans millennia. Human habitation dates back to the third millennium BCE. The site...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/z/anagyrous-wp/sw8z-anagyrous-what-the-ground-holds.mp3 0:06 3 full Anagyrous: The Name and Its Myths https://qualla.com/anagyrous/ Photo credit Picture taken by Marcus Cyron (photo), CC BY-SA 3.0. Two explanations compete for the origin of the name Anagyrous. The first traces it to a mythical hero named Anagyros, who once made the houses near his sacred grove tremble and collapse, and who exterminated an entire family for cutting trees from his precinct. His anger was so f...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/8/z/anagyrous-wp/sw8z-anagyrous-the-name-and-its-myths.mp3 0:06 4 full Anagyrous: Where Plato Was Lulled to Sleep https://qualla.com/anagyrous/ Photo credit Picture taken by Marcus Cyron (photo), CC BY-SA 3.0. The ancient writer Aelian recorded an anecdote about the countryside near Anagyrous that has stuck to the place ever since. Aristion and Periktyoni — Plato's parents — used to bring their infant son to the fields and myrtle groves here. And while the baby Plato slept among the de...

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