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    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...
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    Pnyx (category Ancient Greek buildings and structures in Athens)
    is a hill or hillside in central Athens, the capital of Greece. Beginning as early as 507 BC (Fifth-century Athens), the Athenians gathered on the Pnyx...
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    bile, and phlegm, a belief that dominates medical thinking for centuries. 430 BC: Athens suffers a major pestilence, believed to be caused by epidemic...
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    Solon (redirect from Solon of Athens)
    paucity of documentary and archaeological evidence covering Athens in the early 6th century BC. Ancient authors such as Philo of Alexandria, Herodotus...
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    Aspasia (redirect from Aspasia of Athens)
    Greco-Roman world, and the most important woman in the history of fifth-century Athens, almost nothing is certain about her life. Aspasia was portrayed...
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    democracy developed around the 6th century BC in the Greek city-state (known as a polis) of Athens, comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding territory...
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    the Fifth Century BC. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Larsen, Jakob A. O. (1948). "Cleisthenes and the Development of the Theory of Democracy at Athens". In...
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    earth, because she bestows all things necessary for life". And in fifth-century Athens, Pandora made a prominent appearance in what, at first, appears an...
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    southern Europe, Athens became the leading city of ancient Greece in the first millennium BC, and its cultural achievements during the 5th century BC laid the...
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    Phyle (redirect from Tribes of Athens)
    Pritchard, David (2000). "Tribal Participation and Solidarity in Fifth-Century Athens: A Summary". Ancient History. 30 (2): 104–118. Traill, John S., The...
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    The Acropolis of Athens (Ancient Greek: ἡ Ἀκρόπολις τῶν Ἀθηνῶν, romanized: hē Akropolis tōn Athēnōn; Modern Greek: Ακρόπολη Αθηνών, romanized: Akrópoli...
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    provided yet another case of eponymy by referring to the period of fifth-century Athens as The Age of Pericles after its most influential statesman Pericles...
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    Parthenon Frieze (category 5th-century BC Greek sculptures)
     305–330. Boedeker, D. (2003) Democracy, Empire and the Arts in Fifth-century Athens. Bowie, T., Thimme, D. (1971) The Carrey Drawings of the Parthenon...
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  • the East in fifth-century Athens". She then continued her studies in the Classics at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. She has participated...
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  • Eurybiades (category 5th-century BC Spartans)
    Ancient Athens. Gibson Square Books. pp. 40–41. ISBN 9781906142636. Herodotus, 8.4. Blösel, W., "The Herodotean Picture of Themistocles: A Mirror of Fifth-century...
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  • democracy and appointed a council of thirty to govern Athens in its place. Fifth-century Athens Classical Greece Classical Antiquity Ancient Greek art...
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  • Rex Warner (category 20th-century English novelists)
    history of the Peloponnesian War Men of Athens: The Story of Fifth-Century Athens (vt. The Story of Fifth-Century Athens) (1972) (with photographs by Dimitrios...
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    The Plague of Athens (Ancient Greek: Λοιμὸς τῶν Ἀθηνῶν, Loimos tôn Athênôn) was an epidemic that devastated the city-state of Athens in ancient Greece...
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    dithyrambic celebrations that were the forerunners of the satyr plays of fifth century Athens. According to Hyginus, Zeus promised anything to Hephaestus in order...
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    are not otherwise linked in cult, save in their foreignness in fifth-century Athens. Lane 1989.[full citation needed] Strabo, Geography, 10.3.15. Diodorus...
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    attract large audiences: 6,000 citizens might have attended in Athens during the fifth century BC. Ecclesia (Sparta) Areopagus Athenian democracy Constitution...
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    Saïd, S. 2012. "Athens and Athenian Space in Oedipus at Colonus." In Crisis on Stage: Tragedy and Comedy in Late Fifth-Century Athens. Edited by A. Markantonatos...
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  • Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law: Law, Society and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens. University of California Press, 1990. ISBN 978-0-520-06798-1; pp...
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    in its essence, the play challenges the theology of his day. In fifth century Athens there was a theological revolution with intellectuals questioning...
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    during the Classical period (508–322 BC) Rise to power (508–448 BC) Fifth-century Athens Athenian democracy Greco-Persian Wars (499–449 BC) First Peloponnesian...
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  • Alfred (1961). The Greek Commonwealth: Politics and Economics in Fifth-Century Athens (5th ed.). Oxford University Press. 36°41′N 24°25′E / 36.683°N...
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    Pericles (category 5th-century BC Athenians)
    late as the following century. Pericles promoted the arts and literature, and it was principally through his efforts that Athens acquired the reputation...
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    and theologian Aspasia, the most important woman in the history of fifth-century Athens Gordian I, Roman emperor Helena, Augusta of the Roman Empire and...
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    Alfred E (1911). The Greek Commonwealth: Politics and Economics in Fifth-Century Athens. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 200. Attributed to Pericles by Thucydides...
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    Joseph Campbell (category 20th-century American educators)
    (1990), expressed disagreement with Campbell's "negative critique of fifth-century Athens" in Occidental Mythology, arguing that Campbell missed the "visionary...
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