According to Herodotus, an Athenian runner named Pheidippides was sent to run from Athens to Sparta to ask for assistance before the battle.

According to the Athenian rhetorician Isocrates, Demeter's greatest gifts to humankind were agriculture, particularly of cereals, and the Mysteries which give the initiate higher hopes in this life and the afterlife.

According to Eusebius and Plutarch, Herodotus was granted a financial reward by the Athenian assembly in recognition of his work and there may be some truth in this.

According to Plutarch's Life of Theseus, the ship Theseus used on his return from Crete to Athens was kept in the Athenian harbor as a memorial for several centuries.

According to the book of Acts, contained in the Christian New Testament, when the Apostle Paul visited Athens, he saw an altar with an inscription dedicated to that god, and, when invited to speak to the Athenian elite at the Areopagus gave the following speech:

According to Gomme, " it was a grandiose scheme for an Athenian general at the head of a mainly Peloponnesian army to march through the Peloponnese cocking a snook at Sparta when her reputation was at its lowest ".

According to an anonymous biographer of Aeschylus, the Athenians chose Simonides ahead of Aeschylus to be the author of an epigram honouring their war-dead at Marathon, which led the tragedian ( who had fought at the battle and whose brother had died there ) to withdraw sulking to the court of Hieron of Syracuse — the story is probably based on the inventions of comic dramatists but it is likely that Simonides did in fact write some kind of commemorative verses for the Athenian victory at Marathon.

According to Plutarch, the Cean had a statue of himself made about this time, which inspired the Athenian politician Themistocles to comment on his ugliness.

According to pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheke Cephalus was an Athenian, son of Hermes and Herse.

According to an Athenian version of the legend, Minos attacked Athens after his son was killed there.

According to a later Romance, Hymen was an Athenian youth of great beauty but low birth who fell in love with the daughter of one of the city's wealthiest men.

According to Nicole Loraux, who compares Athens and Paris, it was probably better to be an Athenian Metic, than an immigrant in 1990s France.

According to another view, the quest for authentically Theognidean elegies is rather beside the point — the collection owes its survival to the political motivations of Athenian intellectuals in the 5th and 4th century, disappointed with democracy and sympathetic to old aristocratic values: " The persona of the poet is traditionally based, ideologically conditioned and generically expressed.

According to Pausanias, the Athenians sent the lame, mentally defective teacher / poet to Sparta as a compromise, wishing to obey the oracle, which had demanded an Athenian, but not wishing to help the Spartans in their war, which would have required a more capable individual.

According to tradition, Attica comprised twelve small communities during the reign of Cecrops, the legendary Ionian king of Attica, and these were later incorporated in an Athenian state during the reign Theseus, the mythical king of Athens.

According to Xenophon, they were alarmed at the growing power of Thebes and weary of fending off Spartan fleets alone as the Thebans were not contributing any money to maintaining the Athenian fleet.

According to Herodotus, after the loss of the battle Xerxes attempted to build a causeway across the channel to attack the Athenian evacuees on Salamis, but this project was soon abandoned.

According to the Ancient Greek historian Thucydides, the Athenian citizens at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War ( 5th century BC ) numbered 40, 000, making with their families a total of 140, 000 people in all.

According to Aristotle, the dithyramb was the origin of Athenian tragedy.

According to Aristotle, Athenian tragedy developed from the dithyramb ; the two forms developed alongside one another for some time.

* Thespis: According to Athenian tradition, he was the first dramatist to write for an actor separate from the Chorus.

According to Thucydides, it was not until 415 BC that the Athenian population had recovered sufficiently to mount the disastrous Sicilian Expedition.

According to Athenian sources, when the Dionysus cult was state-controlled a high priest ( hierophant ) and a high priestess ( referred to in Rome as the matrona, with two assistant priestesses ) were appointed as overseers.

According to playwright Alan Franks, writing later in The Times, " he was indeed ' deranged '.

According to one theory about how Cocteau was inspired to write La Voix humaine, he was experimenting with an idea by fellow French playwright Henri Bernstein.

According to Marples, Shakespeare drew directly from Plautus “ parallels in plot, in incident, and in character ,” and was undeniably influenced by the classical playwright ’ s work.

According to a surviving fragment from a work (" Brothers ") by the comic playwright Philemon, Solon established publicly funded brothels at Athens in order to " democratize " the availability of sexual pleasure.

According to the playwright, " It was funnier from behind than in front and I thought that one day I must write a farce from behind.

According to an authorized 1993 biography of the author and playwright by Margaret Forster, Lawrence and du Maurier became close friends during the London production of September Tide.

According to playwright Megan Terry the notion of a minimalist aesthetic was fueled by the company's quest to achieve narrative insight and political accountability through the body of the actor:

According to his biography, McBurney's " work on the production of All My Sons grew out of a meeting with Arthur Miller in 2001, shortly after the playwright saw the New York premiere of Mnemonic.

According to the playwright Edward Radzinsky, Nechayev's methods and ideas have been successfully implemented by many revolutionaries including Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin.

Viscal Garriga was the inspiration for the main character Antígona, in the play La Pasión Según Antígona Pérez ( The Passion According to Antígona Pérez ), written by Puerto Rican playwright Luis Rafael Sánchez.

According to BBC Radio 7's website, Wes is adapting his Hawtrey biography for a TV film and is currently writing a biography of 1960's playwright Joe Orton.

According to playwright and cultural promoter Israil Bercovici, their disciplined approach to theater impacted not only Romanian Yiddish theater but Romanian theater generally.

According to his blog, McLaughlin ’ s father was a good friend of Irish playwright Sean O ’ Casey, and shared battle experiences with war correspondent and international author, Ernest Hemingway.

According to the playwright, he thought he was done with these characters after Cousins, but in the early 1990s found himself thinking about them again and started work on this play.

) According to Bai, the goal of this youth-oriented production was to " give new life to the art form, cultivate a new generation of Kunqu aficionados, and offer respect to playwright Tang and all the master artists that came before.

According to the dramatist Aeschylus, in the distant past they had lived in Scythia ( modern Crimea ), at the Palus Maeotis (" Lake Maeotis ", the Sea of Azov ), but later moved to Themiscyra on the River Thermodon ( the Terme river in northern Turkey ).

According to Aeschylus in the prologue of the Eumenides, it had origins in prehistoric times and the worship of Gaia.

According to Galen, Ptolemy III requested permission from the Athenians to borrow the original scripts of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, for which the Athenians demanded the enormous amount of fifteen talents ( 450 kg of a precious metal ) as guarantee.

According to Aeschylus Apollo made the Fates drunk, and the Fates agreed to reprieve Admetus if he could find someone to die in his place.

According to Aeschylus, Orestes saw Electra's face before the tomb of Agamemnon, where both had gone to perform rites to the dead ; a recognition took place, and they arranged how Orestes should accomplish his revenge.

According to Hesiod Geryon had one body and three heads, whereas the tradition followed by Aeschylus gave him three bodies.

According to Sophocles, he lived beside Mount Hermaeus, which Aeschylus makes one of the beacon points to flash the news of Troy's downfall home to Argos.

According to the scholiast of Lycophron, it was the Egyptian Thebes that was the site of his kingdom similarly with Aeschylus.

According to Kadare in his literary critique book Eskili, ky humbës i madh (), where loser refers to the big number of tragedies that were lost from Aeschylus, there are evident similarities between the kanun and the vendetta laws in all the Mediterranean countries.

According to a speech that Aeschylus, in Eumenides, puts in the mouth of the Delphic priestess herself, she received control of the Oracle at Delphi from Themis: " Phoebe in this succession seems to be his private invention ," D. S.

According to Aeschylus, Apis was a healer, a son of Apollo.

According to some scholars, Deianeira's character in Women of Trachis is intended as a commentary on Aeschylus ' treatment of Clytemnestra, and if this is the case this play was most likely produced reasonably soon after Oresteia, although it is also possible that such commentary was triggered by a later revival of Aeschylus ' trilogy.

According to Aeschylus, they were lent to Perseus to help him slay Medusa.

According to Aeschylus, Prometheus is being punished not only for stealing fire, but also for thwarting Zeus ' plan to obliterate the human race.