Furthermore, Pericles employed a number of offices to maintain Athens ' empire: proxenoi, who fostered good relations between Athens and League members ; episkopoi and archontes, who oversaw the collection of tribute ; and hellenotamiai, who received the tribute on Athens ' behalf.

But a few months later, Mountbatten's efforts nearly came to naught when he received a letter from his sister Alice in Athens informing him that Philip was visiting her and had agreed to permanently repatriate to Greece.

Among the exiled were Damasistratus and his son Theopompus, who had received instruction from the school and went on to study with Isocrates in Athens before becoming a historian.

Athenagoras of Athens, Cicero, and other ancient writers cite that it was for this crime ( among others ) that Diagoras received the death penalty ; the tragic playwright Aeschylus was allegedly tried for revealing secrets of the Mysteries in some of his plays, but was acquitted.

From Athens, this signal was transmitted by satellite to Canada, where it was received and used to trigger a laser beam to re-light the flame.

He had received his training partly in Alexandria, under Ammonius, partly in Athens, as a disciple of Damascius ; and it was probably in one of these two cities that he subsequently took up his abode ; for, with the exception of these cities and Constantinople, it would have been difficult to find a town which possessed the collections of books he needed, and he is unlikely to have gone to Constantinople.

Athena ( also known as Areia ) received him on the Acropolis of Athens and arranged a formal trial of the case before twelve Attic judges.

The city was said to have been founded by Pelasgians from Thessaly, according to tradition at the coming of the Argonauts ; later it received many colonies from Miletus, allegedly in 756 BC, but its importance began only after the Peloponnesian War, when the decay of Athens and Miletus set in.

During this period Thebes had had an ally in Athens but Athens was far from happy with the treatment Plataea had received.

The current excavator, Petros Themelis, who received permission to dig from the Council of Athens Archaeological Society in 1986, suggests that systematic excavation of the site was first undertaken by George Oikoumenos of the Athens Archaeological Society in 1895.

Macaria flees with her siblings and her father's old friend Iolaus to Athens, where they are received by Demophon, the king.

In 411 BC, at the time of the oligarchical revolution at Athens, Thasos again revolted from Athens and received a Lacedaemonian governor ; but in 407 BC the partisans of Lacedaemon were expelled, and the Athenians under Thrasybulus were admitted.

In 1962, Ailes received a bachelor's degree from Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.

Papanikolaou studied at the University of Athens, where he received his medical degree in 1904.

Detailed summary: Nicias and Demosthenes run from a house in Athens, complaining of a beating that they have just received from their master, Demos, and cursing their fellow slave, Cleon, as the cause of their troubles.

Apart from the Archbishop of Athens Theocletus I, who received the new sovereign's oath, only King Constantine I, Crown Prince George and the prime minister, Alexandros Zaimis, attended.

Richardson's Timon of Athens in his 1956 return to the Old Vic was well received, as was his Broadway appearance in The Waltz of the Toreadors for which he was nominated for a Tony Award in 1957.

Athens received tribute from the other cities of the Delian League.

Isocrates was born to a wealthy family in Athens and received a first-rate education.

Athens (;, Athína ; ; Katharevousa: Ἀθῆναι, Athinai ; Ancient Greek: Ἀθῆναι, Athēnai ) is the capital and largest city of Greece.

In 2008, Athens was ranked the world's 32nd richest city by purchasing power < ref >

The word acropolis literally in Greek means " city on the extremity " and though associated primarily with the Greek cities Athens, Argos, Thebes, and Corinth ( with its Acrocorinth ), may be applied generically to all such citadels, including Rome, Jerusalem, Celtic Bratislava, many in Asia Minor, or even Castle Rock in Edinburgh.

Agrippina was born in Athens, as in the year of her birth Agrippa was in that city completing official duties on behalf of Augustus.

* Meier C. 1998, Athens: a portrait of the city in its Golden Age ( translated by R. and R. Kimber ).

The Acropolis of Athens ( Greek: Ακρόπολη Αθηνών ) is an ancient citadel located on a high rocky outcrop above the city of Athens and containing the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historic significance, the most famous being the Parthenon.

The Acropolis is located on a flat-topped rock that rises above sea level in the city of Athens, with a surface area of about 3 hectares.

After the fall of the Duchy of Athens and the principality of Achaia, the only Latin possessions left on the mainland of Greece were the papal city of Monemvasia, the fortress of Vonitsa, the Messenian stations Coron and Modon, Navarino, the castles of Argos and Nauplia, to which the island of Aegina was subordinate, Lepanto and Pteleon.

The air of Abdera was proverbial in Athens as causing stupidity, but the city counted among its citizens the philosophers Democritus, Protagoras and Anaxarchus, and historian and philosopher Hecataeus of Abdera.

In the Plague of Athens, the city lost possibly one third of its population, including Pericles.

At the time of the battle, Sparta and Athens were the two largest city states.

Furthermore, raising such a large army had denuded Athens of defenders, and thus any secondary attack in the Athenian rear would cut the army off from the city ; and any direct attack on the city could not be defended against.

Either way, the Athenians evidently realised that their city was still under threat, and marched as quickly as possible back to Athens.

Map of Piraeus, the port of Athens, showing the grid plan of the city.

The city has been connected to the Proastiakos, the Athens suburban rail network, since 2005, when the new Corinth railway station was completed.

The city of Alexandria in Egypt was founded in 330BC, became the successor to Athens as the intellectual cradle of the Western World.

Much of his life and his whole career coincided with the struggle between Athens and Sparta for hegemony in Greece but he didn't live to see the final defeat of his city.

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 )

In Medea, for example, he composed for his city, Athens, " the noblest of her songs of praise ".

* 1981 – An earthquake registering 6. 7 on the Richter scale hits Athens, killing 16 people and destroying buildings in several towns west of the city.

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 ).

An ardent admirer of Greece, he sought to make Athens the cultural capital of the Empire and ordered the construction of many opulent temples in the city.

His magnificent residence in the city centre of Athens, houses today the Numismatic Museum of Athens.