Colonus

Colōnus

(Κολωνός). A deme of Attica, ten stadia, or a little more than a mile, northwest of Athens, near the Academy; celebrated for a temple of Poseidon, a grove of the Eumenides, the shrine of Oedipus, and as the birthplace of Sophocles, who describes it in his Oedipus Coloneus.

Colonus Colonus, in Attica

• Oedipus goes there and dies: Apollod. 3.5.9