The failure of Greece to reach the imperial destiny that Periclean Athens had seemed to promise was almost directly attributable to her physical conformation.

By 335 BC he had returned to Athens, establishing his own school there known as the Lyceum.

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

Ajax then became an Attic hero ; he was worshiped at Athens, where he had a statue in the market-place, and the tribe Aiantis was named after him.

Pausanias indicated that an altar to Alcmene had been built in the Cynosarges in Athens, alongside altars to Heracles, Hebe, and Iolaus.

From a modern perspective these figures may seem small, but in the world of Greek city-states Athens was huge: most of the thousand or so Greek cities could only muster 1000 – 1500 adult male citizens and Corinth, a major power, had at most 15, 000 but in some very seldom cases more.

Only adult male Athenian citizens who had completed their military training as ephebes had the right to vote in Athens.

Working for wages was clearly regarded as subjection to the will of another, but at least debt servitude had been abolished at Athens ( under the reforms of Solon at the start of the 6th century BC ).

An independent Athens was a minor power in the Hellenistic age ; it rarely had much in the way of foreign policy ; it generally remained at peace, allied either with the Ptolemaic dynasty, or later, with Rome ; when it went to war, the result ( as in the Lamian, Chremonidean, and Mithridatic War ) was usually disastrous.

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

The temple to Ares in the agora of Athens that Pausanias saw in the second century AD had only been moved and rededicated there during the time of Augustus ; in essence it was a Roman temple to the Augustan Mars Ultor.

Aeacus had sanctuaries both at Athens and in Aegina, and the Aeginetans regarded him as the tutelary deity of their island.

During the Acropolis excavations in Athens, which terminated in 1888, many potsherds of the Mycenaean style were found ; but Olympia had yielded either none, or such as had not been recognized before being thrown away, and the temple site at Delphi produced nothing distinctively Aegean ( in dating ).

Upon the death of the king his father, Pandion II, Aegeus and his three brothers, Pallas, Nisos, and Lykos, took control of Athens from Metion, who had seized the throne from Pandion.

Upon his return to Athens, Aegeus married Medea, who had fled from Corinth and the wrath of Jason.

Theseus decided to go to Athens and had the choice of going by sea, which was the safe way, or by land, following a dangerous path with thieves and bandits all the way.

When Aegeus saw the black sails coming into Athens, he jumped into the sea and drowned, mistaken in his belief that his son had been slain.

At Athens, the traveller Pausanias was informed in the second-century CE that the cult of Aphrodite Urania above the Kerameikos was so ancient that it had been established by Aegeus, whose sisters were barren, and he still childless himself.

That Athens had the worst of it in this war is certain.

It is probable that the power of Aegina had steadily declined during the twenty years after Salamis, and that it had declined absolutely, as well as relatively, to that of Athens.

According to the 12th-century bishop of Athens, Michael Choniates, by his time the island had become a base for pirates.

However, Plutarch indicates that many of Pericles ' rivals viewed the transfer to Athens as usurping monetary resources to fund elaborate building projects.

However, following Iamblichus, Plutarch of Athens, and his master Syrianus, Proclus presents a much more elaborate universe than Plotinus, subdividing the elements of Plotinus ' system into their logically distinct parts, and positing these parts as individual things.

While the decor of the provisional theatres was very simple, the permanent theatrical venues of ancient Athens eventually became more sumptuous and elaborate.

Typical of the Hellenistic age, the stoa was more elaborate and larger than the earlier buildings of ancient Athens.

On the Latin stage the prologue was often more elaborate than it was in Athens, and in the careful composition of the poems which Plautus prefixes to his plays we see what importance he gave to this portion of the entertainment ; sometimes, as in the preface to the Rudens, Plautus rises to the height of his genius in his adroit and romantic prologues, usually placed in the mouths of persons who make no appearance in the play itself.

The games were either opened or accompanied by more or less elaborate processions and sacrifices, while processions from the earliest times formed part of the worship of the old nature gods, as those connected with the cult of Dionysus and the Phallic processions, and later formed an essential part of the celebration of the great religious festivals ( e. g. the processions of the Thesmophoria, and that of the Great Dionysia ), and of the mysteries ( e. g. the great procession from Athens to Eleusis, in connection with the Eleusinia ).

Hubris, though not specifically defined, was a legal term and was considered a crime in classical Athens.

According to the legal practice of classical Athens, Creon is obliged to marry his closest relative ( Haemon ) to the late king's daughter in an inverted marriage rite, which would oblige Haemon to produce a son and heir for his dead father in law.

So for a number of reasons the legal term metic should be associated with Classical Athens.

The term Metic began to lose its distinctive legal status in 4th century BC, when metics were allowed to act in the court without a Prostates ( patron ) and came to an end in Hellenistic Athens, when the purchase of citizenship became very frequent.

In ancient Athens, women had no legal personhood and were assumed to be part of the oikos headed by the male kyrios.

Athens had no legal science, and Ancient Greek has no word for " law " as an abstract concept, retaining instead the distinction between divine law ( thémis ), human decree ( nomos ) and custom ( díkē ).

Demetrius was a distinguished statesman who was appointed by the Macedonian king, Cassander, to govern Athens, where he ruled as sole ruler for ten years, introducing important reforms of the legal system while maintaining pro-Cassander oligarchic rule.

The art of persuasion was widely considered necessary for political and legal advantage in classical Athens, and rhetoricians promoted themselves as teachers of this fundamental skill.

He interceded with his own father to spare his aites ' father's life in a legal matter, an action which further intensified friction between Athens and Sparta.

* The Federation was founded in 1926, by the three Unions of Football Clubs of Athens, Piraeus and Macedonia-Thrace, is a Private legal entity, a non profit association, which, according to Civil Law, has its registered offices in Athens under the name of Hellenic Football Federation.

" The road " ( Greek: Ο δρόμος ) established in 2009 under the law 1667 / 1986 is the legal form of a direct non-profit work ( er ) collective running a coffee house named " The bench " ( Greek: Το παγκάκι ) in Athens.

In Classical Athens, no class of legal experts existed.

Responding to government proposals in 2008 to introduce legal rights for cohabiting couples, Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens, the most respected-bishop of the Church of Greece, suggested that " There is a need to change with the time ".

They claim that the Court of Appeal in Athens stated that the invasion was legal and that " The real culprits ... are the Greek officers who engineered and staged a coup and prepared the conditions for the invasion ".