* Callistratus of Aphidnae, an Athenian orator and general, and the Athenian general, Chabrias, are brought to trial in Athens on account of the refusal of the Thebans to surrender the city of Oropus, which on Callistratus ' advice the Thebans have been allowed to occupy temporarily.

Together with Carneades and Critolaus, he was sent to Rome to appeal a fine of hundred talents imposed on Athens in 155 BC for the sack of Oropus.

His successes were at first rapid: he drove out the garrisons of his adversary from Chalcis and Oropus, invaded Attica, where he compelled Athens ' tyrant Demetrius Phalereus to make overtures of submission, and then carried his arms triumphantly through Boeotia, Phocis, and Locris.

The famous oracle of Amphiaraus was situated in the territory of Oropus, 12 stadia from the city.

In the temple of Amphiaraus at Oropus a part of the altar was dedicated to her, in common with Aphrodite, Panaceia, Hygieia, and Athena Paeonia.

His friendship with Antigonus II Gonatas seems to have roused suspicion as to his loyalty, and he sought safety first in the temple of Amphiaraus at Oropus, and later with Antigonus, at whose court he is said to have died of grief.

In the year 155 BC, when he was fifty-eight years old, he was chosen with Diogenes the Stoic and Critolaus the Peripatetic to go as ambassador to Rome to deprecate the fine of 500 talents which had been imposed on the Athenians for the destruction of Oropus.

The name Graea ( γραία ) is derived from Proto Greek grau-j ," old lady ". Homer, while reciting the Boeotian forces in the Iliads Catalogue of Ships, provides the first known reference to a region named Graea, and Pausanias mentions that the ancient city of Tanagra was for a time called Graea, adding that " no one knows where this Graia really was ; Aristotle thought it was near Oropus, further east on the same coast as Delion.

Athenians, in particular, held a special contempt for Thebes due to the latter's actions in the Peloponnesian War ; as well as the Thebans ' destruction of Plataea in 373 BC, and her invasion of the Athenian-allied Boeotian city of Oropus in 366 BC.

* Thebes captures the city of Oropus.

The boundary line came down toward the sea, bounded by the district of Oropus on the right and by the river Asopus on the left.

The Athenians, however, did not conquer the island, but instead sailed to Oropus on the coast of Boeotia.

In 366, he and Callistratus were accused of treachery in advising the surrender of Oropus to the Thebans.

In the Ethnika of Stephanus ( perhaps through Theagenes ), sons and grandsons of Makedon are: Atintan ( in the version of Lycaon ) eponymous of a region in Epirus or Illyria, Beres, ( father of Mieza, Beroea and Olganos, toponyms in Bottiaea ), Europus by Oreithyia daughter of Cecrops and Oropus, birthplace of Seleucus I Nikator, which is perhaps confused with Europus.

That Olynthus was backed by Athens and Thebes, rivals to Sparta for the control of Greece, provided them with an additional incentive to break up this growing power in the north.

Tokyo is at about 35 degrees north latitude, comparable to that of Tehran, Athens, or Las Vegas.

They wished to restore the fortifications of Athens, but the Spartans objected, on the grounds that no place north of the Isthmus should be left which the Persians might be able to use as a fortress.

The Spartans march north to support Athens against the Persians.

There are two roads out of the battlefield of Marathon towards Athens, one more mountainous towards the north whose distance is about, and another flatter but longer towards the south with a distance of.

* Polygnotos of Thasos decorates the Painted Stoa, on the north side of Ancient Agora of Athens ( approximate date ).

Being a rustic god, Pan was not worshipped in temples or other built edifices, but in natural settings, usually caves or grottoes such as the one on the north slope of the Acropolis of Athens.

New evidence has been found in an excavation site north of Athens to prove that Taras is actually the son of Gaia and Leonidas of ancient Sparta.

* Athens County ( north )

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* Athens ( north )-Limestone County

Roads connected Hazel Green with Athens to the west, Winchester, TN to the east, Huntsville to the south, and Nashville to the north.

Lula is the Railroad junction between the Atlanta northeast line and the Athens north line.

Athens Township is bordered by New York to the north, Litchfield Township to the east, Sheshequin, Ulster and Smithfield Townships to the south and Ridgebury Township to the west.

Litchfield Township is bordered by New York to the north, Windham Township to the east, Rome Township to the east and south, Sheshequin Township to the south and Athens Township to the west.

Ridgebury Township is bordered by New York to the north, Athens Township to the east, Smithfield and Springfield Townships to the south and South Creek Township to the west.

Sheshequin Township is bordered by Athens and Litchfield Townships to the north, Rome Township to the east, North Towanda Township to the south and Ulster Township to the west.

Smithfield Township is bordered by Ridgebury and Athens Townships to the north, Ulster Township to the east, Burlington and West Burlington Townships to the south and Springfield Township to the west.

Ulster Township is bordered by Athens Township to the north.

Oostanaula Creek ( sometimes spelled " Eastanalle " or a similar variation ) rises in the hills north of Athens and traverses the city approximately upstream from its mouth along Hiwassee River.

Athens is centered around the junction of U. S. Route 11, which connects the city to Sweetwater to the north and Cleveland to the south, and Tennessee State Route 30, which connects Athens to Etowah and U. S. Route 411 to the southeast and Decatur to the west.

The Athens area was situated nearly halfway between the Overhill Cherokee villages of Great Tellico to the north in Monroe County and Great Hiwassee along the Hiwassee River to the south.

On the advice of the Delphic oracle, he put on the clothes of a beggar, and with nothing in his pocket but a copy of Plato's Phaedo and Demosthenes's oration on the Embassy, he lived the life of a Cynic philosopher, undertaking a journey to the countries in the north and east of the Roman empire.

Since 1950 ongoing excavations by the Archeological Institute of the Chinese Social Sciences Academy have uncovered evidence of stratification at the Hougang site, remains of palaces and temples, royal cemeteries, oracle bone inscriptions, bronze and bone workshops and the discovery of the Shang city on the north bank of the Huang River.

Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.

Yet General Suvorov -- who had never forgotten hearing his adored Czarina declare that all truly great men had oddities -- was mad only north, northwest.

The city was a center of manufacture, especially in textiles, and also because of the beauty of some of its surroundings, a residence for many owners of the great industries in north Alabama.

It was thickly settled by fifteen thousand citizens and laid out into pig-infested streets, mostly around the Battery, going bravely north to Wall Street, but giving up and becoming fields and farms in the region of Harlem Heights.

between the north shore of Deer Island and the Salisbury side there was an arch of 113 feet and a series of piers with a draw forty feet long.

The north portion of the Essex bridge was well worth the cost of construction, although it proved to be twice what was estimated in the beginning.

For a time following the abandonment of the local plant, electric current for Manchester was brought in from the south with an emergency tie-in with the Vermont Marble Company system to the north.

Even though it was known that the Luftwaffe in the north was now being directed by the young and energetic General Peltz, the commander who would conduct the `` Little Blitz '' on London in 1944, a major raid on Bari at this juncture of the war was not to be considered seriously.

True, there had been raids on Naples -- but Naples was pretty far north on the opposite coast.

Hundreds of miles to the north, the route back to England through the `` Furious Overfall '' was again filling with ice.

The trade in a few commodities noted above was to grow in volume as a result of changes both north and south of the 49th parallel.

For southeastern Louisiana, Mobile was the principal post, and it was to furnish supplies for trade to the north and east, in the region threatened by British traders.

Their territory lay to the north, near the sources of the Alabama, the Tombigbee, the Tennessee, and Cumberland rivers, and was easily accessible to traders among the near-by Cherokees.

To hold them was an essential part of French policy, for they controlled the upper termini of the routes from the north to Mobile.

The Mahayana that developed in the north was a religion of idolatry and coarse magic, that made the world into a huge magical garden.

The family moved north across the Ohio River to free ( i. e., non-slave ) territory and made a new start in what was then Perry County but is now Spencer County, Indiana.

In the spring of 1863, Lincoln was optimistic about upcoming campaigns to the point of thinking the end of the war could be near if a string of victories could be put together ; these plans included Hooker's attack on Lee north of Richmond, Rosecrans ' on Chattanooga, Grant's on Vicksburg, and a naval assault on Charleston.

While Crittenden was away in Richmond, Zollicoffer moved his forces to the north bank of the upper Cumberland River near Mill Springs ( now Nancy, Kentucky ), putting the river to his back and his forces into a trap.

At Manzikert, on the Murat River, north of Lake Van, Diogenes was met by Alp Arslan.