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  2. History of Athens - Wikipedia

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    Some of the most important figures of Western cultural and intellectual history lived in Athens during this period: the dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes, the physician Hippocrates, the philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, the historians Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon, the poet Simonides, the orators ...

  3. Classical Athens - Wikipedia

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    Some of the most important figures of Western cultural and intellectual history lived in Athens during this period: the dramatists Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides and Sophocles, the philosophers Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates, the historians Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon, the poet Simonides and the sculptor Phidias.

  4. Category:People from Athens - Wikipedia

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    People from Athens by occupation (18 C) A. Ancient Athenians (10 C, 54 P) B. Byzantine Athenians (12 P) F. Fictional characters from Athens (3 P) Pages in category ...

  5. Metic - Wikipedia

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    Metics whose family had lived in Athens for generations may have been tempted to "pass" as citizens. On a number of occasions there were purges of the citizen lists, effectively changing people who had been living as citizens into metics. In typical Athenian fashion, a person so demoted could mount a challenge in court.

  6. Pericles - Wikipedia

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    Pericles (/ ˈ p ɛr ɪ k l iː z /, Ancient Greek: Περικλῆς; c. 495 – 429 BC) was a Greek politician and general during the Golden Age of Athens.He was prominent and influential in Ancient Athenian politics, particularly between the Greco-Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War, and was acclaimed by Thucydides, a contemporary historian, as "the first citizen of Athens". [1]

  7. Fifth-century Athens - Wikipedia

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    The Parthenon of Athens, built in the 5th century BC following the Greek victory in the Persian wars. Fifth-century Athens was the Greek city-state of Athens in the time from 480 to 404 BC. Formerly known as the Golden Age of Athens, the latter part being the Age of Pericles, it was buoyed by political hegemony, economic growth and cultural ...

  8. Demographic history of Greece - Wikipedia

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    According to Mogens Herman Hansen and his book "The shotgun method : the demography of the ancient Greek city-state culture" by the 4th century BC, the Greek mainland contained a minimum of 4,000,000 people, while the total Greek population, including all the Greek cities throughout the Mediterranean and Black Sea, reached 7,5-10,000,000 people ...

  9. Athenian democracy - Wikipedia

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    As noted by Starr, ostracism exemplified Athens' efforts to safeguard democracy by placing constraints on influential figures without resorting to more severe punitive actions, thereby balancing political stability with democratic freedom. [42] The Pnyx with the speaker's platform, the meeting place of the people of Athens.