How To Use Athenian In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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Spartans accused Athenians of effeminateness
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The Athenian mix of culture and commerce was as apparent in art as architecture.
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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
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They were all warmly welcomed by the Athenian population - but the atmosphere was febrile.
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The Athenian war fleet was reduced to twelve ships - barely enough to protect her shipping.
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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
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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.
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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.
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In this great struggle between the iconoclasts and the adherents to the use of the icons, the Athenians placed themselves on the side of iconolatry.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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Finally, Aristophanes commented Athenian law court system. He criticized that the jurors lacked of responsibilities, civic officials accepted bribe and orators hindered the justice.
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Diogenes, known for sleeping in a tub in the porticoes of temples, eating with dogs and defecating in public, was a sardonic reminder of how thin the veneer of Athenian civilization could be.
Tales of Jaunty Anarchy on the Nile
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While Athenian forces made raids and even established small coastal bases in Spartan territory, these forays were unable to inflict sufficient damage to aid the Athenian fight.
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Treatises on mathematics, music, astronomy, alchemy, medicine, jurisprudence, as well as studies on Athenian judicial terminology and on the topography of Athens. [5.]
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He then sailed across the Aegean, replacing pro-Athenian democracies on the allied islands with oligarchies of Ten (decarchies) under a Spartan overseer (harmost).
3. The Decelean (Or Ionian) War
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The intrinsic value of the materials employed predominates in the earlier model: the value of plate at an Athenian symposium, or the value of gold and ivory in the chryselephantine statues by Phidias.
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The attempt of Tyndaridas to establish a tyranny led to the introduction of petalism, similar to Athenian ostracism.
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The Athenian day-watch descrying him, signalled to the generals, and they, with twenty sail, put out to sea to attack him.
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The alternative to this is not the cosy, comradely little agora of the ancient Athenians but streets filled with thousands shouting in favour of contradictory wishes and guided by neither agreed ethics nor law.
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The Lykians furnished fifty ships; and they were wearers of corslets and greaves, and had bows of cornel-wood and arrows of reeds without feathers and javelins and a goat-skin hanging over their shoulders, and about their heads felt caps wreathed round with feathers; also they had daggers and falchions. 1074 The Lykians were formerly called Termilai, being originally of Crete, and they got their later name from Lycos the son of Pandion, an Athenian.
The History of Herodotus
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The Athenian right made a better stand, and though Cleon, who from the first had no thought of fighting, at once fled and was overtaken and slain by a Myrcinian targeteer, his infantry forming in close order upon the hill twice or thrice repulsed the attacks of Clearidas, and did not finally give way until they were surrounded and routed by the missiles of the
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Moreover, Orestes's journey from boyhood to maturity is a metaphor for the transformation of Athenian society itself.
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Around the same time, the Athenians developed a new kind of colony, the cleruchy.
4. The Classical Age, 510-323 B.C.E
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The Athenians perceiving their intention extended their own right wing and outsailed them, 5 while their left had by this time passed the point of Cynossema.
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He identifies the four of the Athenian virtues: wisdom, courage, moderation, and justice.
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During the 5th century BC, the Athenians organized what they called a purification law for the island, forbidding the burials of the dead on it.
American Chronicle
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The Athe - nians were enemies to the Thebanes, and many greate bat - tailes were assaied of theim and foughten: and often tymes the Athenians felt many bitter stormes, and fortune loured of them, he beyng so valiaunt a capitain.
A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde
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The gallows perhaps is the English term most nearly corresponding to the barathrum, as commonly spoken of in the Athenian popular language.
Aristides
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Justifying their occupation of Delium, the Athenians call the Boeotian refusal to return their dead a greater sacrilege.
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During the fifth century BC the Athenians introduced the third and more lowly currency metal: bronze, an alloy of copper and tin.
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In Pericles' day, the democratic Athenian Assembly actually voted to pay jury-duty fees to all attendees at those dramatic festivals.
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It was Miltiades who swayed the Athenian commander-in-chief, Callimachus, to wage battle, and it was Miltiades who had his reputation enhanced the most by the events of Marathon.
Asher Smith: 2,500 Years Later, Political Lessons From Marathon
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Aware of this, the Athenian generals determined to draw them out in mass as far as possible from the city, and themselves in the meantime to sail by night alongshore, and take up at their leisure
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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The agreement is to last until the Lacedaemonian ambassadors return from Athens, and the Athenians are to convey them thither and bring them back in a trireme.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Corinthians seized66 on the heights of Geraneia, and thence made a descent with their allies into the Megarian territory, thinking that the Athenians, who had so large a force absent in Aegina and in Egypt, would be unable to assist the Megarians; or, if they did; would be obliged to raise the siege of Aegina.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Till now, each Athenian had saluted Hipparchos in his seat of honor; two had even made their horses caracole.
The Praise Singer
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There is no element in Thucydides's account of Athenians being slow to fight.
Balkinization
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Socrates gave the first cry for free speech, but only his own right freely to express truth unimpeded by the tyranny of the majority as represented by the Athenian demos.
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A fragment from the Athenian Agora shows a herm standing in front of a vertical edge, offset in the background, probably indicating the entrance of a sanctuary.
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While the rest of the world waited with bated breath to see if they could simply complete the facilities in time, the Athenians were always confident they could deliver.
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So, fifty years after the Athenian raid on Sardis, the great Persian War ended in a compromise.
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In his third effort to convince the Athenians of the threat from Macedonia, Demosthenes finally won some support and was appointed admiral of the Athenian fleet.
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Theology on two archaic ideas which had already been condemned by enlightened Athenians of the fourth century before our era, _ideas which no one would dream of upholding in these days, though the structure built upon them still subsists_.
The Necessity of Atheism
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Surviving DSE archival records contain biographical summaries of such 'accomplished' KKE/DSE women, samples of which were published in the Athenian daily Eleftherotipia on 22 January 1986.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
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If he can not show how, punish him because he acted as a juror and served in the assembly and accused many falsely, having his name enrolled as an Athenian.
The Orations of Lysias
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Encumbered as he was with his mask and cothurnus, to say nothing of the padding, it will be seen that the Athenian tragic actor had no easy task before him.
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The waggon had just arrived at the gates, which were opened for the boat to enter, when the Athenians, with whom the whole affair had been preconcerted, seeing this movement, rushed out of the ambuscade, wanting to get in before the gates were shut again and while the waggon was still in them, and prevented them from being closed.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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It had been a saying of Aristides, "that if the Athenians desired their affairs to prosper, they ought to fling Themistocles and himself into the barathrum.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
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The intrinsic value of the materials employed predominates in the earlier model: the value of plate at an Athenian symposium, or the value of gold and ivory in the chryselephantine statues by Phidias.
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Poseidon and Athena were vying for control of Athens, and having consulted an oracle he advised that every Athenian should vote for their preference.
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Rowing a Trireme on the Hudson A group of New Yorkers is trying to restore a full-scale model of the ancient Athenian warship known as a trireme and row it in the city's harbor on July 4 next year.
Epic Struggle: Fans Fight to Revive an Oar-Powered Greek Warship
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We discover Athenian women going on a three-day binge every autumn, gleefully burying models of male genitalia.
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Their plan was as follows: The men were each to take their oar, cushion, and rowlock thong, and, going overland from Corinth to the sea on the Athenian side, to get to Megara as quickly as they could, and launching forty vessels, which happened to be in the docks at Nisaea, to sail at once to Piraeus.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Aesthetically, unselfconsciousness has often apotheosized eros - the effortless pubescent grace of the Athenian youth ignited the pederastic swoon of seemingly all Greek thought.
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Athenians at the time may have recalled another great Greek expedition overseas, to Troy; Euripides' Trojan trilogy was produced in 415.
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After falling in with and destroying most of the vessels in question, and burning in the Caulonian territory a quantity of timber for shipbuilding, which had been got ready for the Athenians, the Syracusan squadron went to Locri, and one of the merchantmen from Peloponnese coming in, while they were at anchor there, carrying Thespian heavy infantry, took these on board and sailed alongshore towards home.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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In this genre there is no praise of individual; it is a laudation of the collective Athenians, which is turned into an encomium of the greatness of the polis.
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The whole of the rest of the administration was to be committed, for the period of the war, to those Athenians who were most capable of serving the state personally or pecuniarily, to the number of not less than five thousand.
The Athenian Constitution
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Athenians used to depilate, you know, while the Spartans grew long hair which they combed before going into before battle.
January running, feminine atheletes and getting in the game
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If an ally rebelled, part of its lands were confiscated and an Athenian colony (cleruchy) was established, which served both a military purpose and a civil one to help relieve unemployment at Athens.
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His mind was made up that if he missed the Athenian it would be the fault of the gripsack.
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Other states in the region were just as dependent on the trade with Pontus and were therefore prepared to contribute to the costs of Athenian naval operations.
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Athenian sculpture, in statues, alti and bassi rilievi, capitals, cornices, friezes, and columns as, with the aid of a few of the casts, to present all the sculpture and architecture of any value to the artist or man of taste which can be traced at Athens.
Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3)
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[Greek: _pros tont_o_], and [Greek: _kai tauta gynaika_] must refer to the same person as [Greek: _barbaron anthr_opon_]; (2) to Artaxerxes alone, the words [Greek: _kai tauta gynaika_] being a gratuitous insult such as it was customary for Athenians to level at any Persian; (3) to Artemisia alone, [Greek: anthr_opos] being feminine here as often.
The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2
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On the appointed day the Athenian public would gather at the theatre of Dionysus on the south slope of the Acropolis, paid their admission of two obols, and witnessed a series of plays.
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He lost the battle, and was ostracized; most Athenians did not agree with him.
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The Athenians were free men because they were collectively self-governing, although they lacked personal independence and civil liberties, and were expected to sacrifice their pleasures for the sake of the polis.
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To this discourse of Glaucias I added, that the edict which impowered Miltiades to lead forth the Athenians, was made when the tribe Aeantis was chief of the assembly, and that in the battle of
Essays and Miscellanies
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The poisonous hemlocks are two, one of which, the common hemlock, is said to have been the plant from which the Athenians prepared their poison for executing citizens condemned to death; and the other, the water-hemlock, or cowbane, is particularly deadly when eaten by cattle, to which it is fatal in a very few hours.
The Naturalist on the Thames
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On the right wing of the Corinthians were the Megarian and Ambraciot ships, in the centre the contingents of their other allies; they themselves with their swiftest vessels formed the left wing, which was opposed to the Athenians and to the right division of the Corcyraeans.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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And the place they inhabit is far removed from an Athenian wood.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is the "Bema," the orator's stand, whence speak the "demagogues," the molders of Athenian public opinion.
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They were expelled, and replaced by an Athenian citizen colony, strategically placed to hold the straits of Artemision.
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In Pericles' day, the democratic Athenian Assembly actually voted to pay jury-duty fees to all attendees at those dramatic festivals.
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In the years thereafter, Aeschylus found his muse and became one of the three celebrated 5th-century-BC Athenian tragedians, alongside Sophocles and Euripides.
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Other states in the region were just as dependent on the trade with Pontus and were therefore prepared to contribute to the costs of Athenian naval operations.
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I must drink water, that you may play the cottabus (This game consisted in projecting wine out of cups; it was a diversion extremely fashionable at Athenian entertainments.) with Chian wine!
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 1
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But one suspects that their looted statue of the Athenian tyrannicides was not on public view at Susa.
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They would charge full in face, and presenting their own massive and solid beaks would stave in the hollow and weak forepart of their enemies 'ships; 40 while the Athenians, confined as they were, would not be able to wheel round them or break their line before striking, to which manoeuvres they mainly trusted -- the want of room would make the one impossible, and the
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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That the Athenians should allow the Lacedaemonians on the mainland to send to the men in the island a certain fixed quantity of corn ready kneaded, that is to say, two quarts of barley meal, one pint of wine, and a piece of meat for each man, and half the same quantity for a servant.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Etruscan -- "... an Athenian skyphos found in an Etruscan tomb ...
Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms
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Magical and paranormal phenomena as portrayed on the Athenian stage in the fifth century BC.
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Athenians advanced they retreated, but charged them when they retired, falling especially upon the hindermost of them, in the hope that, if they could put to flight a few at a time, they might strike a panic into the whole army.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Here the pursuers burst in with them, and after getting in were beaten out by the Syracusans, and some few of the Argives and Athenians slain; after which the whole army retired, and having demolished the counterwork and pulled up the stockade, carried away the stakes to their own lines, and set up a trophy.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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A New York-based non-profit is trying to restore a full-scale replica of the ancient Athenian warship known as a trireme and row it in the city's harbor.
Rowing a Trireme on the Hudson
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Theseus, as has been mentioned, is just a less likable character to me, but his band of Athenians who travel to Crete with him in "The King Must Die" have stuc in my mind for decades.
The Bull from the Sea, by Mary Renault. Book review
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While Athenian forces made raids and even established small coastal bases in Spartan territory, these forays were unable to inflict sufficient damage to aid the Athenian fight.
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Young Athenian democrats needed rhetoric to persuade the democratic assemblies.
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The Athenian youth flocked to his side as he walked the paths of the agora.
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Those that love to boast of their business and make a noise about it, and that waste their time in tittle-tattle, in telling and hearing new things, like the Athenians, and, under pretence of improving themselves by conversation, neglect the work of their place and day, they waste what they have, and the course they take tends to penury, and will end in it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Work on the temple continued until 432; the Parthenon, then, represents the tangible and visible efflorescence of Athenian imperial power, unencumbered by the depradations of the Peloponnesian War.
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They also despatched a messenger to Demosthenes, who had led the Athenian expedition into Aetolia, asking him to be their commander, and sent for twenty Athenian ships which were just then cruising about the Peloponnese under the command of Aristoteles the son of Timocrates, and Hierophon the son of Antimnestus.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Even Alexander the Great had to recompense an Athenian who was robbed on the way to Olympia.
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The sculptures in the Medici Palace repeat features of the Athenian sculpture reflected in works of art and described in the literary sources.
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When the Athenian city-state called its constitution an isonomy or the Romans spoke of the civitas as their form of government, they had in mind another concept of power, which did not rely upon the command-obedience relationship.
A Special Supplement: Reflections on Violence
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A century on King Midas of Lydia was the first to mint coins of silver and gold and in the same century the Athenians added the refinement of having devices on both sides.
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The Athenians believed that the Ionians had originated in Athens and had spread from there by an early colonization to what came to be called Ionia on the central coast of Asia Minor; there they founded and formed a loose league of cities.
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The Spartans, he said, would never dare attack Attica with an Athenian army in their homeland, and an invasion would likely spur a revolt of the helots.
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But this helps Herodotus to refel the crime with which he is charged, of having flattered the Athenians for a great sum of money he received of them.
Essays and Miscellanies
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The plays of Aristophanes, the only classical Athenian comic playwright of whom complete plays still survive, are characterized by their biting social and political satire.
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Mnesiphilus was an Athenian politician, apparently an older man and fellow demesman whom Themistocles had looked up to as a young man.
The Battle of Salamis
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Socrates concluded that the ethics experts of his time were impostors, or to be more precise, that they were flatterers who had a knack for telling affluent Athenians just what they wanted to hear.
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Athenians have escaped expatriation, which is purely an Oriental custom.
Lord George Bentinck A Political Biography
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After his death, the Athenians honored his memory with a statue, and a monument to him was erected in his own country.
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For a time he was also the brother-in-law of the Athenian tyrant, Peisistratus, who seized power three times before finally establishing a stable and apparently benevolent dictatorship.
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So too the fiendish destruction of the public and private Hermes figures in Athens two years earlier, on the ill-omened eve of sailing of the Athenian armada for Sicily.
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He put down rebellions and sent his Athenian armies to colonize other areas of Asia Minor.
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Or some one in the palace misguides thy noble husband, the chief of the Athenians, by secret concubinage in thy bed.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
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But then, again, Aristotle did not "immortalize" the word "hybris," the Athenian tragedians had already done that.
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The Athenians perceiving their intention extended their own wing and outsailed them, while their left had by this time passed the point of Cynossema.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Pagondas speaks to the Boeotian army to encourage it to attack the Athenians; he calls the fortification of Delium an assault that must be repulsed.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
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Athenians formed in column and sailed close alongshore to Sestos; upon perceiving which the Peloponnesians put out from Abydos to meet them.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Athenian gentlemen may lock her in the remotest part of the home, Catholic theologians seclude her behind convent doors, and Moslem fanatics hide her behind the head-to-toe veil, but intimacy with her is as unavoidable as it is essential.119
Bloodlust
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Today, as you step out of Liverpool Lime Street Station and are confronted by the classical triumphalism of St. George's Hall and a cobbled public space vaguely reminiscent of an Athenian agora, that urban ideal is instantly apparent.
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Krentz contends that the average Athenian hoplite was carrying-rather than the standard estimate of 70 pounds or so-as little as 30 pounds of battle gear and even so would have jog-trotted, not run, that miracle mile.
WSJ.com: Law Blog
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It had occurred at the same time to the Athenian herald, without orders, to make proclamation that any Megarian who pleased might join the ranks of the Athenians.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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He moved to Athens when he was 18 to fulfill his required military service as an ephebe, but left again shortly thereafter when his parents wer expelled from Samos, along with the other Athenians, when Athens lost the island to Colophon for a time and continued to study philosophy and began to attract disciples.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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The same summer the Thebans dismantled the wall of the Thespians on the charge of Atticism, having always wished to do so, and now finding it an easy matter, as the flower of the Thespian youth had perished in the battle with the Athenians.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Athenian ideal inspired the citizens so that they gave their bodies for the commonwealth, it seems to have been conceived of as a kind of oversoul, a being made up of immortal deeds and heroic spirits, influencing the living, a life within their life, molding their spirits to its likeness.
The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity
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The Athenians refused a virtuous law, because the person was vicious who proposed it; and it is generally esteemed that there is a correspondency betwixt the principles and practices of those men who earnestly profess the promotion of those principles, so that they are mutual producers and advantagers one of another.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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The alternative to this is not the cosy, comradely little agora of the ancient Athenians but streets filled with thousands shouting in favour of contradictory wishes and guided by neither agreed ethics nor law.
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The alleged mission to Spain is treated both as fact and failure, like the Athenian one which Luke presents with such a ring of glorious authenticity.
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The Athenian playwright Aeschylus tells us that among the Persian commanders who were killed during this war, was a cavalry leader 'on a mail-clad horse' called Arsaces ( Persians 996).
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For historians of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the case against Athenian democracy was linked directly to the case against the rhetorical practices of the Athenian demagogues.
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They were all warmly welcomed by the Athenian population - but the atmosphere was febrile.
Times, Sunday Times
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Born at Eleusis, reared there, trained in soldiery, he fought when about thirty-five in the famous battle of Marathon, during which the small Athenian army defeated the mighty Persians.
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Syracusans, guided by their generals, and above all by Hermocrates, instead of risking any more general engagements, determined to build a counterwork in the direction in which the Athenians were going to carry their wall.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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The Corinthians, not the Spartans, felt most threatened by Athenian alliances and expansion during the late 460s and 450s, for they removed all northern counterweights to Athenian power.
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Meanwhile the opponents of the conspirators, being superior in number, prevented the immediate opening of the gates, and acting with Eucles, the general to whose care the place had been committed by the Athenians, sent for help to the other general in Chalcidicè, Thucydides the son of Olorus, who wrote this history; he was then at Thasos, an island colonised from Paros, and distant from Amphipolis about half a day's sail.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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The Greek tragedian Euripides, for example, rarely took first prize in Athenian dramatic competitions.
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All Athenian property and persons would be respected, while he also returned the Athenian prisoners captured at Chaeronea unharmed and without ransom.
Alexander the Great
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But we could match the solid bones of Homo ergaster and erectus, the fleet feet of Ice Age Aboriginal men and the unwearying endurance of Athenian rowers.
Peter McAllister: Manthropology: The Science Of The Inadequate Modern Male
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There is a parallel between the anti-change cries of the ancient Athenian paternalists and the wails of today's ‘anti-globals’.
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The practice in ancient Greece of describing legendary heroes and men of ancient lineage as "earthborn" greatly strengthened the doctrine of autochthony; for instance, the Athenians wore golden grasshoppers in their hair in token that they were born from the soil and had always lived in
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
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Athenian lawmaker ( 7 th century ) whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense.
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Life Xenophon, son of Gryllus, from the Athenian deme (rural district) of Erchia, was born into a wealthy but politically inactive family around 430 BC.
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They voted themselves to be the true Athens, and forgetting and forgiving the past, recalled Alcibiades, and gave him command of the army, thereby well illustrating what the poet Aristophanes said respecting the disposition of the Athenians towards the spoiled favorite, -- "They love, they hate, but cannot live without him.
General History for Colleges and High Schools
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It might seem surprising, therefore, that hydrias do not appear in images of symposia on Athenian pottery; however, this absence is not conclusive evidence for excluding them from the repertory of sympotic vessels.
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The Athenian polis, buttressed by the strength of its Council of Five Hundred and Assembly of citizens, managed to gain control of a confederation of city-states which gradually became the Athenian Empire.
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Athenian lawmaker ( 7 th century ) whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense.
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She and her husband are but foreigners; they are "uninstructed"; the born and bred Athenian needs must smile at them, if he do not think a frown more fitting for such ignorance.
Browning's Heroines
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Isocrates cannot simply repeat the topoi of Athenian speeches in praise of the city.
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Sometimes also called "The Poet and the Women", it is now considered one of Aristophanes 'most brilliant parodies of Athenian society, [3] with a particular focus on the subversive role of women in a male-dominated society, the vanity of contemporary poets, such as the tragic playwrights Euripides and Agathon, and the shameless, enterprising vulgarity of an ordinary Athenian, as represented in this play by the protagonist, Mnesilochus.
Archive 2009-03-01
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Dealing with the end of the Periclean age, specifically in and around 415 BCE, Keuls charts the 'phallocracy' underlying Athenian society.
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This corresponded to the school of the Athenian _grammatist_, and like it the instruction consisted of reading, writing, and counting.
The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization
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For there were Thasian exiles who had been driven out by the Athenians dwelling in Peloponnesus, and they, with the assistance of their friends at home, were exerting themselves vigorously to obtain ships and effect the revolt of Thasos.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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The Athenians were surprised by the Corinthians and Spartans, and the fleet was almost completely destroyed.
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… Reading — a defining characteristic of civilization as far back as ancient Greece when all Athenian citizens were expected to know how to read — is now taken for granted in industrialized democracies.
Literacy News – 63th Edition « News « Literacy News
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Alcibiades, after a severe blockade (408 B.C.), gained possession of the city through the treachery of the Athenian party; in 405 B.C. it was retaken by Lysander and placed under a Spartan harmost.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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She was not a common harlot and camp follower but a woman known to the Athenians as a hetaira—a beautiful, educated, and charming female who shared the bed of her sponsor but also served as his confidante and advisor.
Alexander the Great
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2 The Athenians are addicted to innovation, and their designs are characterized by swiftness alike in conception and execution; you have a genius for keeping what you have got, accompanied by a total want of invention, and when forced to act you never go far enough.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
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Without being unduly rash we may surmise that the tribute of seven youths and seven maidens whom the Athenians were bound to send to Minos every eight years had some connexion with the renewal of the kings power for another octennial cycle.
Chapter 24. The Killing of the Divine King. § 3. Kings killed at the End of a Fixed Term
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The Sophists were a motley bunch - some hailed from the Athenian polis or other city-states, but the majority came from Ionia, in Asia Minor.
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Even if a slave becomes freed, he does not become an Athenian citizen; he is only a "metic," a resident foreigner, and his old master, or some other Athenian, must be his patron and representative in every kind of legal business.
A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
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First, a trireme from the Greek island of Samothrace, fighting for Persia, rammed an Athenian trireme.
The Battle of Salamis
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Nay, if he can only get his music by breaking the strings of his lute, he breaks them, and they snap in discord, and no Athenian tettix, making melody from tremulous wings, lights on the ivory horn to make the movement perfect, or the interval less harsh.
Intentions
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He said ancient Athenians may have honed the art of flirtation at drinking parties known as symposia, drinking parties where men flirted with dancing girls among other entertainment.
Reuters: Top News
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He was tried for impiety, but acquitted by the Athenian jury.
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In 483 B.C., the Athenian statesman Themistocles persuaded his fellow Athenians to build a navy of one hundred triremes.
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These might indeed occur between a man and a woman outside marriage, but putting aside the very limited phenomena of Athenian hetairism, they were too shameful to be idealized.
The Task of Social Hygiene
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At first he danced a solid, Spartan dance, then a rather more fey Athenian dance.
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The Athenian right made a better stand, and though Cleon, who from the first had no thought of fighting, at once fled and was overtaken and slain by a Myrcinian targeteer, his infantry forming in close order upon the hill twice or thrice repulsed the attacks of
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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The true founder of Athenian democracy was probably Cleisthenes, a nobleman at odds with his class.
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Personification and allegory were also introduced as a new means of expression, although the Athenian School remained famous for its traditional handling of heroic subjects; near the end of the 4th century it is marked by retrospection.
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They were expelled, and replaced by an Athenian citizen colony, strategically placed to hold the straits of Artemision.
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Thus, the Iliad is merely a long epic poem to those American students who even know anything about it, while it was effectively a “sacred poem” to the Athenians of Greece in the fourth century B.C.
Of Sacred Poets and Sacredness « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
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The Panathenaia in Periclean Athens had the further purpose of reinforcing the paramountcy of Athens over the members of the Delian League by displaying Athenian power to official visitors from other poleis.
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The true-born Athenians are keen and critical auditors, constant in their attendance at plays and spectacles.
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Mr. Krentz contends that the average Athenian hoplite was carrying — rather than the standard estimate of 70 pounds or so — as little as 30 pounds of battle gear and even so would have jog-trotted, not run, that miracle mile.
A Battle of Long-Running Interest
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Now Phigeleia was gone; I heard Athenian flutes receding, the singers dying away beyond the parodos, the stillness left in the heart.
The Mask of Apollo
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The doctrines of Plato formed the basis of his creed, and it required no little ingenuity, to shew how all other theories quadrated with the speculations of the Athenian sage.
The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution
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He supported his argument with familiar anti-Athenian topoi.
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Thus in the market-place at Athens the stoa poikile was decorated with Polygnotus's representations of the destruction of Troy, the fight of the Athenians with the Amazons, and the battles of Marathon and Oenoe.
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Pericles' funeral oration for Athenians killed in the Peloponnesian War is a famous example of epideictic oratory
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His tragic death was mentioned in the same breath with the death of Jesus in the afterworld and became the blot of Athenian democracy, which became a puzzle of ancient and modern scholars.
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The sections on stage antiquities and on the Athenian constitution are of especial interest to scholars.
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Later, with Persian approval, Conon helped the Athenians to complete new Long Walls and to refortify Piraeus, thus restoring Athens to independence from Sparta.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
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As the noose tightened on Olynthus, the Athenians debated and delayed until at last Philip had the city surrounded.
Alexander the Great
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In this battle the line of the Mantineans, who were on the Argive right wing, extended far beyond the Sciritae: and still further, in proportion as the army to which they belonged was the larger, did the Lacedaemonians and Tegeans on the Lacedaemonian right wing extend beyond the Athenian left.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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As longtime observers of Bill O'Reilly, we choose to regard the man with the unjaundiced eye, impassive reason, and evenhanded solemnity of an ancient Athenian stoic.
Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer: Media Drunk Tank
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The Athenian Timagoras supported all these statements of the Theban by independent testimony, and stood second in honour after Pelopidas.
Hellenica
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Iysis, because it put an end to a drought; or from its anaschesis, or relief from calamities, which is the origin of the Athenian name
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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Athenian tettix, making melody from tremulous wings, lights on the ivory horn to make the movement perfect, or the interval less harsh.
Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde
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Athenian skyphos found in an Etruscan tomb at Chiusi, and at present in the museum there.
Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms
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The second was a sweeping victory, and the Athenians followed it up by landing troops on Aigina and besieging the town.
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In the 6th century, Athenian black-figure supplanted Corinthian and became the dominant ware with workshops exporting painted ceramics throughout the Mediterranean and beyond.
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Without being unduly rash we may surmise that the tribute of seven youths and seven maidens whom the Athenians were bound to send to Minos every eight years had some connexion with the renewal of the king's power for another octennial cycle.
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
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The Athenians suffered 1,000 casualties, the Thebans more; Athenian prisoners were released without payment, whereas Thebes had to ransom its men.
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Born in Boeotia, he was active in Athens, and so is accounted an Athenian sculptor. Of his works, the most famous was a Discobolus.
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Thus many wise 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
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And the place they inhabit is far removed from an Athenian wood.
Times, Sunday Times
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Besieged and expelled from Byzantium by the Athenians, he did not return to Sparta; but news came that he had settled at Colonae in the Troad, and was intriguing with the barbarians, and that his stay there was for no good purpose; and the ephors, now no longer hesitating, sent him a herald and a scytale with orders to accompany the herald or be declared a public enemy.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Why did the designer of the west pediment choose for subject the Thessalian Centauromachy in its new Athenian guise?
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Other main characters are Bagoas the famously beautiful eunuch companion of Darius and then Alexander, Artashir a Persian noble and officer in Alexander's army, Thais the infamous Athenian hetaira of the Susa Palace torching fame and long time companion of Ptolemy and of course Alexander and Hephaistion as above.
"Stealing Fire" by Jo Graham (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu)
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The chief result of the War was that the Athenian Empire was divided, the subject states of the Delian league were liberated, direct democracy failed and Pericles was ostracized.
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The Athenian leader was a bit of a slaphead with a dolichocephalic skull; but instead of going around enduring the jeers of the ancient tabloid media, he had a very cool solution.
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Imagine the readers of Athenian newspapers in Smyrna and Thrace ... yearning to be informed of Athenian developments regarding Hellenism and the national question; imagine the reader in Thessalia turning the pages seeking news about the agricultural question, only to stumble across the minutes kept in the National Assembly on the discussion of the women's vote!
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
