Upper Potamus

Upper Potamus, or Potamus Kathyperthen or Potamos Kathyperthen (Ancient Greek: Ποταμός καθύπερθεν), was a deme of ancient Attica. It lay on the east coast north of Thoricus, and was once a populous place: it was celebrated as containing the sepulchre of Ion.¹²³⁴

Upper Potamus is tentatively located at Kaisariani monastery.⁵⁶

References

Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. pp, 398, 399. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
Pausanias (1918). "31.2". Description of Greece. Vol. 1. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library., 7.1.2.
Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Book 4.7.11.
Suda, s.v. Ποταμός; Harpocr., s.v. Ποταμός
Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
Talbert, Richard, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9, with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Attica". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

37°57′42″N 23°47′52″E / 37.9618°N 23.7979°E / 37.9618; 23.7979

[1] Strabo. Geographica. Vol. ix. pp, 398, 399. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.

[2] Pausanias (1918). "31.2". Description of Greece. Vol. 1. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library., 7.1.2.

[3] Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Book 4.7.11.

[4] Suda, s.v. Ποταμός; Harpocr., s.v. Ποταμός

[5] Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

[6] Talbert, Richard, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9, with accompanying Map-by-Map Directory.

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