Aphytis
A´PHYTIS (Ἄφυτις, also Ἀφύτη, Ἄφυτος: Eth. Ἀφυταῖος, more early Ἀφυτιεύς, Ἀφυτεύς, Ἀφυτήσιος: A´thyto, Leake, Northern Greece, vol. 3. p. 156), a town on the eastern side of the peninsula Pallene, in Macedonia, a little below Potidaea. (Hdt. 7.123: Thuc. 1.64; Strab. 7. p. 330.) Xenophon (Xen. Hell. 5.3.19) says that it possessed a temple of Dionysius, to which the Spartan king Agesipolis desired to be removed before his death; but it was more celebrated for its temple of Ammon, whose head appears on its coins. (Plut. Lys. 20; Paus. 3.18.3; Steph. B. s. v.)
(Ἀφυτίς). A town in Macedonia containing a celebrated temple and oratory of Zeus Ammon (Pausan. iii. 18.)
Identified by Leake with Athytos near the modern village of Nea Phlogita on the E side of the Kassandra peninsula. Herodotos names it as one of the cities of Pallene (Phlegra) from which Xerxes' fleet took ships and men. A Sanctuary of Dionysos there is mentioned by Xenophon. Local coins bearing the head of Zeus Ammon were first issued in 424 B.C.
BIBLIOGRAPHYHdt. 7.123; Strab. 7, frag. 27; Thuc. 1.64; Xen. Hell. 5.3.19; W. M. Leake, Nor. Gr. (1835) III 155f.
M. H. MC ALLISTER- Paus. 3.18.3
- people of A. revere Ammon: Paus. 3.18.3