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...ogy]], he was a [[friendship|friend]] of [[Theseus]] who accompanied the [[Athens|Athenian]] [[hero]] to [[Tartaros]] to try to [[kidnapping|kidnap]] [[Perse

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...the brigands killed by [[Theseus]] on the trip overland back [[home]] to [[Athens]]. Sinis tied [[traveler]]s to two [[pine (tree)|pine]] [[tree]]s, which we

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...y]], it was the greatest [[city-state]] of Boeotia and the main rival to [[Athens]] and [[Sparta]]. Famous citizens included [[Epaminondas]] and [[Pelopidas]

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...major figure in the political, economic, religious and cultural life of [[Athens]] in the 6th century BC. ...rriage with the daughter of Megacles and again acquired temporary power of Athens, sometime around 556-555 BC. However, Lycurgus and Megacles united to drive

...]] in the [[genre]] of [[Greek tragedy]] by the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[Athens|Athenian]] [[playwright]] [[Euripides]]. It was the [[story]] based on the

:The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to t

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...icinity of [[Marathon (Greece)|Marathon]]. Later, it was captured by the [[Athens|Athenian]] hero [[Theseus]]. In another account, the bull carried [[Europa]

...ad Jr., William R. (2003). The new effective voluntary board of directors. Athens,

** A string of quotations from approximately twenty contributors, mostly Athens natives, who knew the band in the '80's; while somewhat marred by the solip

...t common forms of government; present as early as 800 BC in the polis of [[Athens]]. It was used during the Middle Ages in slightly modified forms, usually i

...trilogy about the battle between the mythical island of [[Atlantis]] and [[Athens]] which according to legend took place 9000 years before Plato's time. ...[[Timaeus (dialogue)|Timaeus]] the island was swallowed by the sea, making Athens the most powerful state in the Mediterranean.

'''Apollodorus''' (Άπολλόδωρος) also called '''Apollodorus of Athens''' (born c. [[180 BC]] - died after [[143 BC]]) was a [[Greece|Greek]] gram

...anias]] claims that the Museum on the hill right opposite the Acropolis in Athens is "where legend says Musaeus used to sing, and, dying of old age, was buri

| '''1896''' || [[1896 Summer Olympics|Athens (GRE)]] || || || ( men, women) || || | '''2004''' || [[2004 Summer Olympics|Athens (GRE)]] || 301 || 28 || 10,625 (6296 men, 4329 women) || 199 ||

The most famous agora was the one in [[Athens]]. The [[Agora Open Air Museum of Izmir]] is one of the best preserved agor

* ''Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens'' (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) ed. by Stephen Ever

'''Cleisthenes''' was an [[Athens|Athenian]] statesman of the late 6th century BC and arguably the founder of ...e help of [[Sparta]]. The Spartans were repeatedly urged by Delphi to free Athens, and they finally agreed, sending a force to overthrow Hippias.

...dministration, he taught international law at the University of Georgia in Athens until his retirement in 1984.

...1923. In 1937 she left the [[United States of America]] and went to the [[Athens]] conservatory, where she studied under Elvira de Hidalgo, accompanied by h

...e functions, the city is nicknamed in Occitan ''l'Atenas dau Miegjorn'' “[[Athens]] of the South”.

...ies whose habitation was not interrupted by the end of the [[Bronze Age]]. Athens was relatively prosperous in the [[Proto-Geometric Period|Proto-Geometric]] ...ted of several plains divided by hills. The central plain held the city of Athens and a strip of coast, including the [[Bay of Phaleron]]. Farther west was t

'''Pericles''' was the greatest statesman of Ancient [[Athens]] who brought [[Democracy]] to its zenith. He built the most magnificent of Pericles inherited property at [[Cholargus]] to the north of Athens, making him very wealthy. His Alcmeonid mother, Agariste, provided him with

...ogues Plato's main character is not Socrates but someone from outside of [[Athens]]. In Xenophon's 'Hiero' a certain ''Simonedes'' plays this role when Socra

...re to be found outside their natural areas; cafes aman were to be found in Athens, and there are early recordings of rembetika. They were thrown together mo *Gail Holst ''Road to Rembetika: Music of the Greek Sub-culture''. Athens: Denise Harvey, 1975. ISBN 960-7120-07-8

'''λόγος''' or '''logos''' is a word in Greek, used in ancient Athens by philosophers, poets and rhetoriticians which has taken on an important r

'''Theseus''' was a hero from [[Greek mythology]] and a legendary king of [[Athens]]. ...vised him not to "loosen the wineskin's jutting foot" before he arrived at Athens. This wasn’t a warning against [[alcohol]], but against sex. Ignoring the

...s]] of an earlier structure built of wood and earth. (What can be seen in Athens today are in fact the remains of a later rebuilding by the [[Ancient Rome|R

...The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr.'' Athens: U. of Georgia Press, 1987. ISBN 0820308986.