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Athens (city, Greece)
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...Athens (ăth´Ĭnz), Gr. Athínai, city (1991 pop...city. The capital of Attica prefecture, Athens is Greece's largest city and its administrative...economic, and cultural center. Greater Athens, which includes the port of Piraiévs and......
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Athens (cities, United States)
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...Athens:1 City (1990 pop. 45,734), seat...Numerous Georgia statesmen have lived in Athens, and some of their houses are among the city...2 City (1990 pop. 21,265), seat of Athens co., SE Ohio, on bluffs overlooking the......
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Constitution of Athens
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...Constitution of Athens, treatise by Aristotle or a member of his school, written in the late 4th cent. BC It was lost until discovered on Egyptian......
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Lyceum (gymnasium near ancient Athens)
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...Lyceum (līsē´əm), gymnasium near ancient Athens. There Aristotle taught; hence the extension of the term lyceum to Aristotle's school of philosophers, the Peripatetics....
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Callimachus (fl. 2d half of 5th cent. BC, Greek sculptor from Athens)
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...Callimachus (kəlĬm´əkəs), fl. 2d half of 5th cent. BC, Greek sculptor from Athens. He was famous as the maker of the gold lamp in the Erechtheum and a seated image of Hera for a temple at Plataea. There are several......
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Peloponnesian War
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......pĕl´əpənē´zhən), 431–404 BC, decisive struggle in ancient Greece between Athens and Sparta. It ruined Athens, at least for a time. The rivalry between Athens' maritime domain and Sparta's land empire was of long standing. Athens under......
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Delian League
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......Greek city-states under the leadership of Athens. The name is used to designate two distinct...BC The first alliance was made between Athens and a number of Ionian states (chiefly...on the members were originally fixed by Athens, and the fairness with which these......
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Greek architecture
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......era includes the reign of Pericles in Athens, in which the architects Callicrates...produced.After the passing of power from Athens and Sparta to Asia Minor the pure traditions...exquisitely adjusted type took form at Athens, in the Hephaesteum (465 BC), the Parthenon......
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Pericles
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......From then on he was the popular leader in Athens. As strategos, or military commander...under Athenian control failed. While in Athens between campaigns, Pericles carried through...democracy. As a result, all officials in Athens were paid salaries by the state and every......
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Theseus
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......sēəs), in Greek mythology, hero of Athens; son of either King Aegeus or Poseidon...was to bring the gifts to his kingdom in Athens. At the age of 16 Theseus lifted the...Procrustes). When Theseus arrived at Athens, Medea, then wife of Aegeus, tried......