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Modern Description: a fortification wall built after the battle of Chaeronea(338 BC) in order to protect Athens from the Macedonian danger. It is sited on the hilltops of Pnyx, hill of Muses and hill of Nymphs and is connected with the Themistoclean wall in the south and in the north. Diateichisma, of 900m length and 300m width, was reinforced with square and two circular towers. After its construction the western parts of Melite and Koile deme, that stayed outside the walls, were abandoned
[Judith Binder: Diateichisma: Diateichisma from the Mouseion Fort to the Hill of the Nymphs, the Compartment Wall, [allegedly] built between 307 and 294 B.C. [?](Plan 2 zeta/theta—3): IG II² 463 line 53; Thompson H. A. and R. L. Scranton 1943, 301-340, figs. 18-20, 22-39, 42, pls. 14-16; Conwell, D. H. 1993, 153-154; L. Karlsson, The City Walls on the Pnyx Put into Context,” in Pnyx 1996, 87-92, figs. 58-60, 61 a-b; D. H. Conwell, The White Poros Wall on the Athenian Pnyx: Character and Context,” in Pnyx 1996, 93-101, Plan 1; according to D. H. Conwellʼs recent research, communicated in the summer of 2003, this diateichisma was constructed in the second or third decades of the 3rd c. B.C. and is not attested by IG II² 463 line 53 which refers to an entirely different, earlier diateichisma that must have been constructed some time before 307/6 B.C., the date of the inscription. [A section of the Themistoklean City Wall became a diateichisma when the Long Walls were built.]]
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diateichisma
Wikidata ID: Q64699224
Trismegistos Geo: 364

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