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The name of Athens, connected to the name of its patron goddess Athena, originates from an earlier Pre-Greek language. [1] The origin myth explaining how Athens acquired this name through the legendary contest between Poseidon and Athena was described by Herodotus, [2] Apollodorus, [3] Ovid, Plutarch, [4] Pausanias and others.
ATHENIAN ATTEMPT AT ESTABLISHING THE GRECIAN EMPIRE. Spartans unfit for rule — Aristides — Athens fortified — Allies rendered dependent — Athenian and Spartan alliance — Peloponnesian war— Brasidas — Alcibiades — Sicilian expedition — Egospotamos — Athens taken 98 CHAPTER XIII. THE SPIRITUAL KINGDOM OF THE GRECIAN PHILOSOPHERS.
Philip himself feared an alliance of the powerful Chalkidian League and Athens, so he moved to reassure the Olynthians by offering them an alliance on very advantageous terms. [46] As part of the agreement with Olynthos, Philip was to capture the city of Potidea, located in the territory of the Chalkidian League. Potidea was at that time under ...
Since 357 BC, when Philip seized Amphipolis, after agreeing in part to trade it for Pydna, Athens was formally in a state of war against the King of Macedon.In 352 BC, Demosthenes characterised Philip as the very worst enemy of his city, [4] and a year later he criticized fiercely those dismissing Philip as a person of no account and warned them that he is as dangerous as the King of Persia. [5]
Athens, a free city with its own laws, appealed to Hadrian to devise new laws which he modelled on those given by Draco and Solon. [ 5 ] Autonomi [ 6 ] or rather Autonomoi was the name given by the Greeks to those states which were governed by their own laws, and were not subject to any foreign power. [ 7 ]
Map of ancient Athens showing the Acropolis in middle, the Agora to the northwest, and the city walls. Athens was in Attica, about 30 stadia from the sea, on the southwest slope of Mount Lycabettus, between the small rivers Cephissus to the west, Ilissos to the south, and the Eridanos to the north, the latter of which flowed through the town ...
Dec. 19—Athens' varsity basketball squads completed a home sweep of St. John Paul II on Tuesday. The boys improved to 10-3 following a 63-41 victory while the girls recorded a 55-39 win. See ...
So Paul went to the synagogue and the Agora (Greek: ἐν τῇ ἀγορᾷ, "in the marketplace") on a number of occasions ('daily'), [5] to preach about the Resurrection of Jesus. His novel expositions were met with confusion and wonder by some Epicureans and Stoics, as well as other Greeks of philosophical inclinations. They then took him ...