AEGA´LEOS
AEGA´LEOS (
Αἰγάλεως,
Hdt. 8.90;
τὸ Αἰγάλεων ὄρος,
Thuc. 2.19:
Skarmanga), a range of mountains in Attica, lying between the plains of Athens and Eleusis, from which Xerxes witnessed the battle of Salamis. (Herod.
l.c.) It ended in a promontory, called
AMPHIALE (
Ἀμφιάλη), opposite Salamis, from which it was distant only two stadia according to Strabo (p. 395).
The southern part of this range near the coast was called CORYDALUS or
CORYDALLUS (
Κορνοδαλός, Κορνδαλλός) from a demus of this name (Strab.
l.c.), and another part, through which there is a pass from the plain of Athens into that of Eleusis, was named
POECILUM (
Ποικίλον, Paus. 1.37.7.) (Leake,
Demi of Attica, p. 2, seq.)
