In the classical period, Athens was a centre for the arts, learning, and philosophy, the home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, Athens was also...

The study of the lives of women in classical Athens has been a significant part of classical scholarship since the 1970s. The knowledge of Athenian women's...

In Classical Athens, there was no exact equivalent of the English term "adultery", but the similar moicheia (Ancient Greek: μοιχεία) was a criminal offence...

city-state (known as a polis) of Athens, comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica. Although Athens is the most famous ancient Greek...

The ancient Agora of Athens (also called the Classical Agora) is the best-known example of an ancient Greek agora, located to the northwest of the Acropolis...

scholars generally agree that the goddess took her name after the city. Classical Athens was one of the most powerful city-states in ancient Greece. It was...

Historical affiliations Kingdom of Athens 1556 BC–1068 BC City-state of Athens 1068 BC–322 BC Hellenic League 338 BC–322 BC Kingdom of Macedonia 322 BC–148...

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...

of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA; Greek: Αμερικανική Σχολή Κλασικών Σπουδών στην Αθήνα) is one of 19 foreign archaeological institutes in Athens, Greece...

purpose of enhancing their maneuverability as soldiers. Old Education in classical Athens consisted of two major parts – physical and intellectual, or what was...

anus. It is mentioned by Aristophanes as a punishment for adultery in Classical Athens in the fifth and fourth century BC. It was also a punishment for other...

up Athens in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Athens is the capital of Greece. Athens may also refer to: Classical Athens, the city in Classical Antiquity...

complications, the legal term metic is most closely associated with classical Athens. At Athens, the largest city in the Greek world at the time, they amounted...

The festival calendar of Classical Athens involved the staging of many festivals each year. This includes festivals held in honor of Athena, Dionysus,...

importance for this period, both for Athens and for a number of continental Greek cities that also issued decrees. The "Classical Age" is "the modern designation...

Athenians' suspicion. It has been noted that the Plague of Athens was the worst sickness of Classical Greece. In his History of the Peloponnesian War, the historian...

economy. Traditional interpretations of the layout of the oikos in Classical Athens have divided into men's and women's spaces, with an area known as the...

Greece, specifically during the Golden Age of Athens in the classical period. Ancient Attica (the classical Athens city-state) was divided into demoi, or municipalities...

along with Athens and Gortyn, for which any detailed information about the role of women survives. This evidence is mostly from the Classical period and...

Kennedy, Rebecca (2014). Immigrant Women in Athens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Citizenship in the Classical City. New York: Routledge. p. 69. ISBN 9781138201033...

[aspasíaː]; c. 470 – after 428 BC) was a metic woman in Classical Athens. Born in Miletus, she moved to Athens and began a relationship with the statesman Pericles...

tyrant's subjects. Tyrannicide was legally permitted and encouraged in Classical Athens. Often, the term "tyrant" was a justification for political murders...

to gain advantage). The word has its origin in the legal system of Classical Athens. Most legal cases of the time were brought by private litigants as...

Greek Codes. Classical Philology, 17(3), 187–201. JSTOR 263596 Adamidis, Vasileios. Character Evidence in the Courts of Classical Athens: Rhetoric, Relevance...

doubt, at least one modern author considers it significant that in Classical Athens, three hundred or so years after the death of Solon, there existed...

his hasty departure from Sinope he moved to Athens where he proceeded to criticize many conventions of Athens of that day. There are many tales about him...

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

age of Classical Greece, from the Greco-Persian Wars to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, and which included the Golden Age of Athens and the...

which he held office, much like the Roman dating by consular years. In Classical Athens, a system of nine concurrent archons evolved, led by three respective...

Enforcement of Morals in Classical Athens. Cambridge University: Cambridge University Press. p. 6. ISBN 9780521466424. Oxford Classical Dictionary entry on...