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Kolonos is a section of [[Athens]], [[Greece]].
In classical Greece '''Hippeios Colonus''' ([[Greek language|Greek]] Ίππειος Κολωνός, ''Colonus of the Horses'') was a [[deme]] about 1 km to the northwest of [[Athens]], near [[Plato's Academy]]. There is also the ''"Agoraios Kolonos"'' (Αγοραίος Κολωνός, Colonus of the Agora), a hillock by the [[Athens]] [[Agora]] on which the temple of [[Hephaestus]] still stands.

Hippeios Colonus held a temple of [[Poseidon]] and a sacred grove to the [[Erinyes|Eumenides]].

According to [[Greek mythology]], [[Oedipus]] was buried there, as described by [[Sophocles]], who was born there, in his [[Oedipus at Colonus]].

Its modern name is rendered as '''Kolonos''' and it is a densely populated working-class district of the municipality of Athens.

The district is passed by [[Lenorman Avenue]] and streets runs almost diagonally.  Konstantinopouleos Avenue and the [[Organismos Sidirodromion Ellados|OSE]] is to the southeast.  The nearest train station is at the [[Larissa station]].  In [[1992]], [[Athinon Avenue]] was closed for a construction of an overpass to avoid traffic congestion with railway crossings.  The road was detoured with Lenorman Avenue until [[1993]] when the overpass was first opened.  The overpass only has an eastbound off-ramp and a westbound on-ramp.

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