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* Athenian: " For ourselves, we shall not trouble you with specious pretenses — either of how we have a right to our empire because we overthrew the Mede, or are now attacking you because of wrong that you have done us — and make a long speech which would not be believed ; and in return we hope that you, instead of thinking to influence us by saying that you did not join the Spartans, although their colonists, or that you have done us no wrong, will aim at what is feasible, holding in view the real sentiments of us both ; since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must " ( Strassler 352 / 5. 89 ).
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For example, Athenian tragic poets provided him with a world-view of a balance between conflicting forces, upset by the hubris of kings, and they provided his narrative with a model of episodic structure.
For a time, it served as the treasury of the Delian League, which later became the Athenian Empire.
For example ( given in Phaedo 98 ), if Socrates is sitting in an Athenian prison, the elasticity of his tendons is what allows him to be sitting, and so a physical description of his tendons can be listed as necessary conditions or auxiliary causes of his act of sitting ( Phaedo 99b ; Timaeus 46c9-d4, 69e6 ).
: For the Athenian orator with a similar name, see Aesion.
In 1847 large fragments of his speeches, Against Demosthenes and For Lycophron ( incidentally interesting for clarifying the order of marriage processions and other details of Athenian life, and the Athenian government of Lemnos ) and the whole of For Euxenippus ( c. 330 BCE, a locus classicus on eisangeliai or state prosecutions ), were found in a tomb at Thebes in Egypt.
For their support of the Persians, the islanders were later punished by the Athenian war leader Themistocles, who exacted a heavy fine.
: For the Athenian conflict with its allies between 357 and 355 BC see Social War ( 357 – 355 BC ).
For instance, the Athenian Isocrates ( 436 – 338 BC ) in his Plataicus ( which details the destruction of Plataea by the Thebans ), makes no mention of the Theban victory in Leuctra, and harshly reviles Thebes throughout.
For these accomplishments, historians refer to him as " the father of Athenian democracy.
For example, Athenian women seemed to have “ learned to imitate the styles ” of the prostitute.
For over 50 years Barnet FC competed in the Athenian League.
For the first time in the war, the Spartan crews and commanders were more experienced than their Athenian opposites, as the Athenians ' best crews had been at sea with Conon.
For these reasons, Dor became the most remote outpost of the Athenian navy.
For the writers on Athenian history, Hellanicus and Philochorus ( who wrote Atthis ) and writers on Syrian affairs, Castor and Thallus, and writers on world affairs, Diodorus ( who wrote the Library ) and Alexander Polyhistor, and some of our contemporaries record these events even more accurately than all the Attic historians.
For a time, he enjoyed a number of successes against Pharnabazus, and seized a number of Athenian merchant ships.
For example, Athenian democracy limited the vote to male citizens, while slaves, foreigners, and women of any status were excluded.
For example, the Athenian Parthenon, first reconsecrated as a church was turned into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest and remained structurally unharmed until the 17th century AD.
For instance, at Delium in 424 the Athenian left flank, a formation eight men deep, held off a formation of Thebans twenty-five deep without immediate collapse.
For example, an expensive votive gift by the painter Euphronios was found on the Athenian Acropolis.
Upon being reunited with his friends, he is not even able to utter what has happened and says " For if I tell you, I am no true Athenian ".
For example, in the play The Wasps by Aristophanes the first parabasis is about Aristophanes ' career as a playwright to date, while the second parabasis is shorter, and contains a string of in-jokes about local characters who would be well known to the ancient Athenian audience ( e. g. the politician Cleon ).
Athenian and we
* Socrates: Widely considered the founder of Western political philosophy, via his spoken influence on Athenian contemporaries ; since Socrates never wrote anything, much of what we know about him and his teachings comes through his most famous student, Plato.
Think of the barren image we should have of Socrates, had the works of Plato and Xenophon not come down to us and were we wholly dependent upon Aristophanes ' description of this Athenian philosopher.
The protection of the Athenian name probably secured the rising colony from the assaults of the Crotoniats, at least we hear nothing of any obstacles to its progress from that quarter ; but it was early disturbed by dissensions between the descendants of the original Sybarite settlers and the new colonists, the former laying claim not only to honorary distinctions, but to the exclusive possession of important political privileges.
A minor god in Greek mythology, which we read largely through Athenian writers, Aristaeus or Aristaios (), " ever close follower of the flocks ", was the culture hero credited with the discovery of many useful arts, including bee-keeping ; he was the son of Apollo and the huntress Cyrene.
What business Hephaestion was attending to we do not know, but Andrew Chugg has suggested that it was concerned either with his command of the fleet or Athenian diplomacy.
Athens retaliated quickly and some scholars believe this to be the period where we should talk about an Athenian Empire instead of a league.
* Athenian: " Of the gods we believe, and of men we know, that by a necessary law of their nature they rule wherever they can.
From the Ptoan sanctuary in Boeotia we have the Ptoon 12 kouros ( NAMA ), " softer, less sturdy " suggests Richter it is, she asserts, a native Boeotian product and not an Athenian import.
But though we are told in general terms that the period which elapsed from this re-settlement of Himera till its destruction by the Carthaginians ( 461 – 408 BCE ), was one of peace and prosperity, the only notices we find of the city during this interval refer to the part it took at the time of the Athenian expedition to Sicily, 415 BCE.
Herodotus wrote: " On the occasion of which we speak when Pheidippides was sent by the Athenian generals, and, according to his own account, saw Pan on his journey, he reached Sparta on the very next day after quitting the city of Athens.
However, within the Apology we do have Plato's record of Socrates ' cross-examination of Meletus, per the Athenian legal convention allowing the defendant to cross-examined the accuser.
Finally, Athenaeus ( a grammarian of the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD ), wrote of a contemporary Athenian festival dedicated to Prometheus: " Aeschylus clearly states in the Unbound that in honor of Prometheus we place a garland on the head as recompense of his bondage.
Finally, Athenaeus ( a grammarian of the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD ) wrote in Book 15. 16 of his Deipnosophists the following regarding a contemporary Athenian festival dedicated to Prometheus: " Aeschylus clearly states in the Unbound that in honor of Prometheus we place a garland on the head as recompense of his bondage.
At the time of the peace between Athens and Philip in 346 BC, we find Cersobleptes again involved in hostilities with the Macedonian king, who in fact was absent in Thrace when the second Athenian embassy arrived at his capital Pella, and did not return to give them audience until he had completely conquered Cersobleptes.
We learn from the Suda that three different cities are mentioned as his native place, Athens, Naucratis in Egypt, or Sicyon ; but as Athenaeus calls him an Athenian or Naucratian, we may leave the claims of Sicyon out of the question.
Athenian and you
" That boy ," his master at King Edward's School had said, " could harangue an Athenian mob better than you or I could address an English one.
Good Sir, you are an Athenian, a citizen of the greatest city with the greatest reputation for both wisdom and power ; are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honours as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth or the best possible state of your soul.
The Areopagus, like most city-state institutions, continued to function in Roman times, and it was from this location, drawing from the potential significance of the Athenian altar to the Unknown God, that the Apostle Paul is said to have delivered the famous speech, " Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you.
The author, who appears to be an Athenian, regards the Athenian democracy as undesirable, as giving the mob undue voice in the state ; but he argues that it is well-designed for its purpose, if you wanted so vile a thing to be done.
Athenian and with
The identification of Ajax with the family of Aeacus was chiefly a matter which concerned the Athenians, after Salamis had come into their possession, on which occasion Solon is said to have inserted a line in the Iliad ( 2. 557 – 558 ), for the purpose of supporting the Athenian claim to the island.
Although democracy predated Athenian imperialism by over thirty years, they are sometimes associated with each other.
Even with respect to slavery the new citizen law of 450 BC may have had effect: it is speculated that originally Athenian fathers had been able to register for citizenship offspring had with slave women ( Hansen 1987: 53 ).
However, the invasion ended in 490 BC with the decisive Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon.
This signaled a complete change in Athenian foreign policy, neglecting the alliance with the Spartans and instead allying with her enemies, Argos and Thessaly.
* Temple of Aphaea, dedicated to its namesake, a goddess who was later associated with Athena ; the temple was part of a pre-Christian, equilateral holy triangle of temples including the Athenian Parthenon and the temple of Poseidon at Sounion.
The involvement of Athens in the Ionian Revolt arose from a complex set of circumstances, beginning with the establishment of the Athenian Democracy in the late 6th century BC.
In 510 BC, with the aid of Cleomenes I, King of Sparta, the Athenian people had expelled Hippias, the tyrant ruler of Athens.
Under the guidance of Miltiades, the Athenian general with the greatest experience of fighting the Persians, the Athenian army marched quickly to block the two exits from the plain of Marathon, and prevent the Persians moving inland.
The Athenians had honed their style of fighting in combat with other phalanxes, wooden shields smashing against wooden shields, iron spear tips clattering against breastplates of bronze ... in those first terrible seconds of collision, there was nothing but a pulverizing crash of metal into flesh and bone ; then the rolling of the Athenian tide over men wearing, at most, quilted jerkins for protection, and armed, perhaps, with nothing more than bows or slings.
Connected with this episode, Herodotus recounts a rumour that this manoeuver by the Persians had been planned in conjunction with the Alcmaeonids, the prominent Athenian aristocratic family, and that a " shield-signal " had been given after the battle.
An Athenian inventory from 330 – 329 BC includes catapults bolts with heads and flights.
An extant inscription from the Athenian arsenal, dated between 338 and 326 BC, lists a number of stored catapults with shooting bolts of varying size and springs of sinews.
Another Athenian inventory from 330-329 BC includes catapult bolts with heads and flights.
In the nineteenth century, Thomas Bulfinch combined these into a single synoptic view of material which Andrew Stewart calls a " historically-intractable farrago of ' evidence ', heavily tinged with Athenian cultural chauvinism ".
In the story of the labyrinth Hellenes told, the Athenian hero Theseus is challenged to kill the Minotaur, finding his way with the help of Ariadne's thread.
Athenian citizens were familiar with rhetoric in the assembly and law courts, and some scholars believe that Euripides was more interested in his characters as speakers with cases to argue than as characters with lifelike personalities.
The term on occasion has been applied to maritime empires or thalassocracies, ( e. g. the Athenian and British Empires ) with looser structures and more scattered territories.
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