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...

paucity of documentary and archaeological evidence covering Athens in the early 6th century BC. Ancient authors such as Philo of Alexandria, Herodotus...

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...

bile, and phlegm, a belief that dominates medical thinking for centuries. 430 BC: Athens suffers a major pestilence, believed to be caused by epidemic...

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...

the Fifth Century BC. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Larsen, Jakob A. O. (1948). "Cleisthenes and the Development of the Theory of Democracy at Athens". In...

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...

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...

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...

Pritchard, David (2000). "Tribal Participation and Solidarity in Fifth-Century Athens: A Summary". Ancient History. 30 (2): 104–118. Traill, John S., The...

The Acropolis of Athens (Ancient Greek: ἡ Ἀκρόπολις τῶν Ἀθηνῶν, romanized: hē Akropolis tōn Athēnōn; Modern Greek: Ακρόπολη Αθηνών, romanized: Akrópoli...

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...

 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...

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...

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...

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...

dithyrambic celebrations that were the forerunners of the satyr plays of fifth century Athens. According to Hyginus, Zeus promised anything to Hephaestus in order...

democracy and appointed a council of thirty to govern Athens in its place. Fifth-century Athens Classical Greece Classical Antiquity Ancient Greek art...

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...

attract large audiences: 6,000 citizens might have attended in Athens during the fifth century BC. Ecclesia (Sparta) Areopagus Athenian democracy Constitution...

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...

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...

in its essence, the play challenges the theology of his day. In fifth century Athens there was a theological revolution with intellectuals questioning...

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...

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...

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...

late as the following century. Pericles promoted the arts and literature, and it was principally through his efforts that Athens acquired the reputation...

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...

Alfred E (1911). The Greek Commonwealth: Politics and Economics in Fifth-Century Athens. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 200. Attributed to Pericles by Thucydides...

The Lyceum (Ancient Greek: Λύκειον, romanized: Lykeion) was a temple in Athens dedicated to Apollo Lyceus ("Apollo the wolf-god"). It was best known for...