Originally, large tracts of land ( Athens and Alexander Townships ) were set aside through a contract between the Congress ( under the Articles of Confederation ) and the Ohio Company of Associates, a group of American Revolutionary War veterans.

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.

Ridgebury Township was established in 1818 from Athens and Wells Townships.

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.

The boundaries from 1983 to 1987 included all of Adams, Clinton, Fayette, Highland, Hocking, Jackson, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Vinton and Warren Counties, plus Waterloo and York Townships in Athens County ; Wayne Township in Clermont County ; Concord, Jasper, Marion, Perry, Union, and Wayne Townships in Fayette County ; and Washington Township and the Cities of Miamisburg and West Carrollton in Montgomery County.

* The Middle Branch Shade River rises southeast of the city of Athens in Athens Township in Athens County, at an elevation of 950 feet ( 290 m ), and flows southeastwardly through Alexander, Lodi, and Carthage Townships in Athens County ; and Bedford, Orange, and Chester Townships in Meigs County.

* The East Branch Shade River rises in Lodi Township in Athens County, at an elevation of 916 feet ( 279 m ), and flows south-southeastwardly through Carthage Township in Athens County, and Orange and Chester Townships in Meigs County.

* In Oropus, north of Athens, the oracle Amphiaraus, was said to be the son of Apollo ; Oropus also had a sacred spring.

He also entered into a league with Jason of Pherae, and assiduously cultivated the friendship of Athens.

The mines of Thasos were also turned over to Athens, and they had to pay yearly tribute and fines.

Athens also switched from accepting ships, men and weapons as dues from league members, to only accepting money.

According to Epiphanius Scholasticus, he was born in Athens, but there is also a tradition of an Alexandrian birth.

In 403 BC, Athens took over the Ionian spelling system and with it the vocalic use of H ( even though it still also had the / h / sound itself at that time ).

He was also unique among the writers of ancient Athens for the sympathy he demonstrated towards all victims of society, including women.

Plutarch is the source also for the story that the victorious Spartan generals, having planned the demolition of Athens and the enslavement of its people, grew merciful after being entertained at a banquet by lyrics from Euripides's play Electra: " they felt that it would be a barbarous act to annihilate a city which produced such men " ( Life of Lysander )

Errors crept in also when Athens replaced its old Attic alphabet with the Ionian alphabet, a change sanctioned by law in 403-2 BC, adding a new complication to the task of copying.

The event attracts amateur swimmers from all over the Canaries and Spain, and also swimming professionals such as David Meca and Maarten Van der Weijden, the paralympist Jesús Collado Alarcón who won gold medals for 100m backstroke and butterfly in Athens 2004, and Xavi Torres Ramis, the paralympic champion in Barcelona ' 92, Sydney and Atlanta.

While at Athens, he developed a close friendship with his fellow student Basil of Caesarea and also made the acquaintance of Flavius Claudius Julianus, who would later become the emperor known as Julian the Apostate.

In fact Herodotus was in the habit of seeking out information from empowered sources within communities, such as aristocrats and priests, and this also occurred at an international level, with Periclean Athens becoming his principal source of information about events in Greece.

For some reason, probably associated with local politics, he subsequently found himself unpopular in Halicarnassus and, sometime around 447 BC, he migrated to Periclean Athens, a city for whose people and democratic institutions he declares his open admiration ( V, 78 ) and where he came to know not just leading citizens such as the Alcmaeonids, a clan whose history features frequently in his writing, but also the local topography ( VI, 137 ; VIII, 52-5 ).

He was also archon in Athens for a brief time, and was elected an Athenian citizen.

There were also riots against supporters of Venizelos in Athens ( the Noemvriana ).

This story may also be construed erroneously to show the power of Alexandria over Athens during the Ptolemaic dynasty.

The Temple of Olympian Zeus (), also known as the Olympieion or Columns of the Olympian Zeus, is a colossal ruined temple in the centre of the Greek capital Athens that was dedicated to Zeus, king of the Olympian gods.

The temple was excavated in 1889-1896 by Francis Penrose of the British School in Athens ( who also played a leading role in the restoration of the Parthenon ), in 1922 by the German archaeologist Gabriel Welter and in the 1960s by Greek archaeologists led by Ioannes Travlos.

Though, according to the 4th-century BC father of botany, Theophrastus, olive trees ordinarily attained an age of about 200 years, he mentions that the very olive tree of Athena still grew on the Acropolis ; it was still to be seen there in the 2nd century AD ; and when Pausanias was shown it, ca 170 AD, he reported " Legend also says that when the Persians fired Athens the olive was burnt down, but on the very day it was burnt it grew again to the height of two cubits.

Oxfordians also claim that the fact that a number of the later plays ( such as Henry VIII, Macbeth, Timon of Athens and Pericles ) have been described as incomplete or collaborative is explained by these plays being either drafted earlier than conventionally believed, or simply revised / completed by others after Oxford's death.

In Athens, a group of 300 Scythian slaves ( the, " rod-bearers ") was used to guard public meetings to keep order and for crowd control, and also assisted with dealing with criminals, handling prisoners, and making arrests.

The war also wrought subtler changes to Greek society ; the conflict between democratic Athens and oligarchic Sparta, each of which supported friendly political factions within other states, made civil war a common occurrence in the Greek world.

For a time during this conflict, Athens controlled not only Megara but also Boeotia ; at its end, however, in the face of a massive Spartan invasion of Attica, the Athenians ceded the lands they had won on the Greek mainland, and Athens and Sparta recognized each other's right to control their respective alliance systems.

This debate was attended by members of the league and a delegation from Athens ( that was not invited ) also asked to speak, and became the scene of a debate between the Athenians and the Corinthians.

He died while he was still young, after he lost a war with the king of Athens, Pandion, over their borders.

Sayre borders, and is contiguous with, Waverly, New York ; South Waverly, Pennsylvania ; and Athens, Pennsylvania ..

At first, it was enclosed geographically within the Athens basin, but due to borders allocation it was partially removed towards the mesogean plain, losing pieces of Patima, Pefka and Stavros from Chalandri and Agia Paraskevi and gaining parts of Balana from Pallini.

Chalandri is a suburb in Northern Athens, around 12 km from the centre ; its location corresponds with one of the 10 ancient Dimoi ( boroughs ) of Athens, known as Flya ().

Here, US 220 becomes a freeway for the final time at an exit with PA 199, the main north – south highway through the neighboring boroughs of Athens, Sayre, and South Waverly.

The Athens – Sayre Bypass, a limited-access highway bypassing the boroughs of Athens and Sayre, was completed in 1973.

The Olympic flame covered a distance of more than 78, 000 km in the hands of some 11, 300 torchbearers, travelling to Africa and South America for the first time, visiting all previous Olympic cities and finally returning to Athens for the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Marion has been called the " Athens of the South " because of the dominating presence of the educational institutions founded in this small town.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department ( LASD ) operates the South Los Angeles Station in West Athens, serving Lennox.

The town also served as a major commercial center and as a center for education, earning it the title " Athens of the South ".

At one time New Bern was called " the Athens of the South.

Renowned in the South were the Masonic Temple and the Athens Theater, both still very active today.

Athens is in a small area locally known as ' The Valley ,' a group of four contiguous communities in the two states: Waverly, NY ; South Waverly, PA ; Sayre, PA ; and Athens.

Sayre is also in a small area called ' The Valley ,' a group of four contiguous communities in New York and Pennsylvania: Waverly, New York ; South Waverly, PA ; Sayre ; Athens, PA, and smaller surrounding communities with a combined population near 35, 000 of the Greater Valley.

Sayre is situated in a river valley in the Allegheny Plateau on the confluence of the Susquehanna River and the Chemung River, along with Athens, Pennsylvania, South Waverly, Pennsylvania, and Waverly, New York.

South Waverly is also in a small area called ' The Valley ,' a group of four contiguous communities in New York and Pennsylvania: Waverly, NY ; South Waverly, PA ; Sayre ; and Athens Pennsylvania, with a combined population near 30, 000.

Tennessee State Highway 39 ( South Niota Road and West Athens Street ) connects Englewood to Athens, opposite the hills to the west and as Tellico Street, connects Englewood to Tellico Plains to the east.

Best known is that of 338 BCE, between Philip II of Macedon and a coalition of various South Greek states, mainly Thebes and Athens.

These include research institutes in Amman, Ankara, Athens, Jerusalem, Nairobi, Rome and Tehran, as well as UK-based specialist learned societies which run strategic research programmes in other parts of the world including Africa, Latin America and South and South East Asia.

The NBG took over also the affiliated South African Bank of Athens ( est.

In 1966, Syrian Arab Airlines used the Caravelles on flights to Europe ( London, Paris, Munich, Rome, Athens and Nicosia ) as well as high density Middle Eastern routes ( Baghdad, Teheran, Jeddah, Kuwait, Doha, Sharjah ) and on flights to South Asia ( Karachi and Delhi ).

Nashville designed its pavilion after the Parthenon in Greece due to the city's nickname as The Athens of the South.

The mountain offers panoramic views of the mountains northeast of Parnitha, Penteli to the east, the Ymittos to the southeast, the Aigaleo to the south and another to the west ; from its summit, one can also see the Thriasian Plain, the Saronic Gulf including the islands of Salamina, Aigina and the North, the South Euboean Gulfs and island of Euboea, and most of central and northern Greater Athens.