Athens

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Sources

1. BookAncient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History
2. BookHistory of the Peloponnesian War

Relations

has part:

• Piraeus

  Sources: History of the Peloponnesian War, Hellenica

location of:

• Acropolis of Athens

  Sources: Acropolis, Athens

• Dipylon inscription

  Sources: The World’s Writing Systems, The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and Pictograms

• Lyceum

  Sources: The Athenian Constitution, Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History

• Panathenaic Stadium

  Sources: Olympedia: Olympic Games

• Platonic Academy

  Sources: Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History

• Stoa Poikile

  Sources: Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age

enemy of:

• Sparta431 BCE O.S. – Apr 404 BCE O.S.

  Sources: History of the Peloponnesian War, The Peloponnesian War

• SyracuseJun 415 BCE O.S. – Sep 413 BCE O.S.

  Sources: History of the Peloponnesian War, The Peloponnesian War

capital of:

• Greece

  Sources: Olympedia: Olympic Games

conquered:

• Milossince 416 BCE O.S.

  Sources: History of the Peloponnesian War

conquered by:

• Lysandersince Apr 404 BCE O.S.

  Sources: Hellenica

led:

• Delian League

  Sources: History of the Peloponnesian War, Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History

led by:

• Pericles

  Sources: History of the Peloponnesian War, Parallel Lives

Appears in26 items

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  Ancient Greece21 items
  • Solon’s reformsc. Jan 593 BCE O.S.
  • Cleisthenes’ reformsc. Jan 507 BCE O.S.
  • 
    Battle of Marathon · victorc. Aug 490 BCE O.S.
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    Silver at Laurion builds a fleetc. Jan 482 BCE O.S.
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    Battle of Salamis · evacuated citySep 480 BCE O.S.
  • The Delian League · leaderc. Jan 477 BCE O.S.
  • Earthquake at Sparta and the helot revolt464 BCE O.S.
  • The league treasury moves to Athensc. Jan 453 BCE O.S.
  • The Peloponnesian War431 BCE O.S.
  • Pericles’ funeral orationc. Jan 430 BCE O.S.
  • The plague of Athens430 BCE O.S.
  • Spartans surrender on Sphacteria · victorc. Aug 425 BCE O.S.
  • The Melian dialogue · aggressor416 BCE O.S.
  • The herms are mutilated · sitec. Jun 415 BCE O.S.
  • The Sicilian Expeditionc. Jun 415 BCE O.S.
  • An eclipse keeps the Athenians at Syracuse27 Aug 413 BCE O.S.
  • Battle of Aegospotami · defeatedc. Sep 405 BCE O.S.
  • The Thirty404 BCE O.S.
  • Athens surrendersApr 404 BCE O.S.
  • 
    The trial and death of Socrates · site399 BCE O.S.
  • Battle of Chaeronea · defeatedc. Aug 338 BCE O.S.
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  Philosophy1 item
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    The trial and death of Socrates · trial site399 BCE O.S.
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  The History of Writing1 item
  • 
    Dipylon jugc. 740 BCE
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  The Modern Olympic Games3 items
  • The IOC is founded at the Sorbonne · awarded the first Games23 Jun 1894
  • Athens 1896 · host25 Mar 1896 O.S.
  • Athens 2004 · host13 Aug 2004

Mentioned in5 items

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  Alexander’s Campaigns1 item
  • 
    The treasure of SusaDec 331 BCE O.S.
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  Philosophy3 items
  • 
    Plato founds the Academyc. 387 BCE O.S.
  • 
    Aristotle opens the Lyceum335 BCE O.S.
  • Epicurus opens the Gardenc. 306 BCE O.S.
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  The Ancient Olympics1 item
  • Alcibiades enters seven chariots416 BCE O.S.