Décélie

Décélie (in Greek old Δεκέλεια / Dekéleia ) is a Dème of the Attique pertaining to the territory of the tribe Hippotontis. It is located close to the Mont Parnès, on the road going of Béotie to the Eubée, to approximately 22 km in the North-East of Athens, from where it is visible. One can see since Décélie the ships which enter the port of the Pirée.

On the councils of Alcibiade, the Spartiates carried out by the king Agis II occupy it in 413 av. J. - C., during the Peloponnesian War. Décélie is useful to them then basic for launching raids on the Attic, which enables them to hold Athens with their mercy until the end of the war. Like Thucydide the fact of saying to Alcibiade:

“Of the wealths of fields which account the country, the major part will return Spartiates, either in conquest, or spontaneously; the incomes of the money mines of the Laurion, advantages qu the Athenians currently draw from the grounds and of the workshops, will be lacking at once to them - and especially the income provided by the allies, which will not arrive to them any more with same abundance, because those, considering from now on the war vigorously carried out on your side, will take some with their ease. ”

The current site revealed ruins of fortifications which are identified with the camp of Acted.

One speaks sometimes about war of Décélie in connection with the last phase of the Peloponnesian War (413 - 404).

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