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.