Athenian

How To Use Athenian In A Sentence

• Dated to circa 510 B.C., and from the Athenian workshop of the Antimenes Painter, this Greek stamnos (vase) shows the bull-headed beast running from the pursuing Theseus, with Ariadne looking on. Home | The New York Observer
• His most famous pupil was the Athenian politician Demetrius of Phalerum, through whose influence he, though a metic (resident foreigner), was allowed to own property.
• Spartans accused Athenians of effeminateness
• The Athenian mix of culture and commerce was as apparent in art as architecture.
• Athenians so far forgot their Philosophy, and the nature of humane production, that they descended unto belief, that the original of their Nation was from the Earth, and had no other beginning then the seminality and womb of their great Mother. El Hombre Que Comía Diccionarios
• They were all warmly welcomed by the Athenian population - but the atmosphere was febrile. Times, Sunday Times
• The Athenian war fleet was reduced to twelve ships - barely enough to protect her shipping.
• But so it was, as great men and princes are said to call in their flatterers when dinner has been served, so the Athenians, upon slight occasions, entertained and diverted themselves with their spruce speakers and trim orators, but when it came to action, they were sober and considerate enough to single out the austerest and wisest for public employment, however much he might be opposed to their wishes and sentiments. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
• The points in which the Spartans mock the Athenians, other Greeks and the Persians is not a command to be Spartan, but rather how Spartans would actually act. 300, 7000, Whatever
• Here, the author is conscious of balancing between the anti-Spartan bias current in the speeches of contemporary Athenian rhetors and the detached tenor in the writings of democracy's elite critics.