Saint Paul delivering the Areopagus sermon in Athens, by Raphael, 1515

Most New Testament scholars believe Paul of Tarsus wrote this letter from Corinth, although information appended to this work in many early manuscripts ( e. g., Codices Alexandrinus, Mosquensis, and Angelicus ) state that Paul wrote it in Athens after Timothy had returned from Macedonia with news of the state of the church in Thessalonica (; ).

This late 5th or early 6th century Christian Greek author wrote under the pseudonym Dionysius the Areopagite, the figure converted by St. Paul in Athens.

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:

22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars ' hill, and said, " Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

The seat remained vacant until a special election in July 2007 which was won by Republican Athens physician Paul Broun.

Raphael — St Paul Preaching in Athens

Since an Athens already existed in the state, Nebraska Senator Phineas W. Hitchcock suggested the name St. Paul in honor of the Paul brothers who founded it.

He acted at the Piccadilly Theatre in 1959 and was with the Royal Shakespeare Company in the 1962 Arts Theatre Experimental season ( Nil Carborundum and Afore Night Come ) 1964 ' Dirty Plays ' season Night Come, Victor and the premiere productions of The Marat Sade and the revival of Afore Night Come ), in 1965 at Stratford where he appeared in The Comedy of Errors, Timon of Athens, The Jew of Malta, Love's Labour's Lost, and Peter Hall's outstanding production of The Government Inspector at the Aldwych Theatre with Paul Scofield, Eric Porter, Donald Burton, Stanley Lebor, Bruce Condell, John Corvin and Tim Wylton among others.

Constantine was born at Psychiko, a suburb in northern Athens, the nephew of King George II and the second child and only son of the king's brother and heir-presumptive, Crown Prince Paul.

Paul was born in Athens, the third son of King Constantine I of Greece and his wife, Princess Sophia of Prussia.

On 9 January 1938, Paul married Frederika of Hanover at Athens.

St Paul Preaching in Athens

* St Paul Preaching in Athens ( Acts 17: 16-34 ), the figure standing at the left in a red cap is a portrait of Leo ; next to him is Janus Lascaris, a Greek scholar in Rome.

* Dionysius the Areopagite, Athenian judge who was converted by Paul of Tarsus and became Bishop of Athens

* the Archdiocese of Athens, Greece ( Saint Paul )

Collins stated that he was likely to challenge U. S. Rep. Paul Broun, a fellow Republican in the redrawn 10th Congressional District, according to a report in the Athens Banner-Herald.

* Paul Friedrich Kahn ( b. February 1, 1870, Mannheim, Germany-d. February 12, 1947, Athens, Greece ), private secretary to Gerhart Hauptmann, later AEG director in Athens

The apostle Paul had preached in Corinth and Athens, and Greece soon became one of the most highly Christianized areas of the empire.

It consisted of thirteen values ( 5, 10, 20, 40, 50, and 80 lepta and 2, 5, 6, 7, 10, 15 and 25 drachmae ) depicting important works of art and episodes in Greek history, such as the Venus de Milo, the Battle of Salamis and St. Paul preaching in Athens.

Many of Lasansky's former students helped to shape these departments, including Glen Alps, who taught for forty years at the University of Washington, Seattle ; Lee Chesney ( born 1921 ) who taught at the University of Illinois in Champaign, the Otis Art Insititute, the University of Southern California and the University of Hawai ' i ; David Driesbach ( born 1922 ) who taught at Ohio University in Athens and Northern Illinois University in Dekalb and John Ilhe ( 1925 – 2002 ) who taught at San Francisco State University, and John Paul Jones ( 1924 – 1999 ) who taught at University of CA at Los Angeles, and University of California at Irvine, where he set up and administered the Printmaking facility.

* In the historical novel Funeral Games by Mary Renault, Cassander visits the Lyceum in Athens and tells Theophrastos evil slanderous lies against Alexander the Great.

Salamis Island is very popular for holiday and weekend visits from the Athens and Piraeus area ; its population rises to 300, 000 in peak season of which ca.

Most Greek cities, such as Athens, required visits to the public fountains ( the work of domestic servants ), but the upper third of Prieneian society had access to indoor water.

He visits Athens to study, travels to Rome for the first time, and witnesses the accession of Trajan.

Byron spent several months in 1810-11 in Athens, including two documented visits to Sounion.

It makes annual donations to the British Schools in Rome and Athens, and a separate fund set up in 1984 provides financial assistance for visits to classical sites and museums.

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

For the Panathenaic festival, arguably the most important civic festival at Athens, a torch race began at the altar, which was located outside the sacred boundary of the city, and passed through the Kerameikos, the district inhabited by potters and other artisans who regarded Prometheus and Hephaestus as patrons.

Priestess officiating before an altar while nude to demonstrate purity, Attic red-figure kylix ( drinking cup ) | kylix by Chairias, c. 510-500 BC, Ancient Agora Museum in Athens

That Poseidon and Erechtheus were two names at Athens for the same figure ( see below ) was demonstrated in the cult at the Erechtheum, where there was a single altar, a single priest and sacrifices were dedicated to Poseidon erechtheus, Walter Burkert observed, adding " An historian would say that a Homeric, pan-Hellenic name has been superimposed on an autochthonous, non-Greek name.

An altar to this god was put up by the metics in Athens in commemoration of the spurned love of the metic Timagoras who was rejected by the Athenian Meles.

She was a daughter either of Gaia or of Hope, was described as " she who initiates and furthers communication " and had an altar at Athens.

Walter Burkert has shown that since Lycurgus of Athens ( d. 324 BC ), who held that " it is the oath which holds democracy together ", religion, morality and political organization had been linked by the oath, and the oath and its prerequisite altar had become the basis of both civil and criminal, as well as international law. Burkert, Greek Religion, trans.

The altar to the Twelve Olympians at Athens is usually dated to the archonship of the younger Pesistratos, in 522 / 521 BC.

When members of the state went forth to found a new colony they took with them a brand from the Prytaneum altar to kindle the new fire in the colony ; the fatherless daughters of Aristides, who were regarded as children of the state at Athens, were married from the Prytaneum as from their home ; Thucydides informs us that in the Synoecism of Theseus the Prytanea of all the separate communities were joined in the central Prytaneum of Athens as a symbol of the union ; foreign ambassadors and citizens who had deserved especially well of the state were entertained in the Prytaneum as public guests.

An altar was located in the middle of the orchestra ; in Athens, the altar was dedicated to Dionysus.

For example, marked astragali have been found near the altar of Aphrodite Ourania in Athens, Greece, suggesting astragalomancy was performed near the altar after about 500 BC.

Such was the impromptu that Voltaire gave to howls of laughter at Sans Souci and that was soon circulated in manuscript throughout the literary circles of Europe, to be printed sometime later, but with the name of Timon of Athens, the famous misanthrope, substituted for that of Rousseau.

The savage barbarian hordes of red Russian Communism descended on the Athens that was mighty Metronome, sacking and despoiling with their Bolshevistic battle cry of `` Soak the rich '!!

While in Athens, his wife Pythias died and Aristotle became involved with Herpyllis of Stageira, who bore him a son whom he named after his father, Nicomachus.

The statue throws some light on an artistic centre which, with an independently developed harder, simpler, and heavier style, restricts Ionian influence in Athens.

Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning around 3, 400 years.

* 2005 – Helios Airways Flight 522 en route from Larnaca, Cyprus via Athens, Greece to Prague, Czech Republic crashes near Athens, with at least 121 on board.

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.

Agathon is portrayed by Plato as a handsome young man, well dressed, of polished manners, courted by the fashion, wealth and wisdom of Athens, and dispensing hospitality with ease and refinement.

He is said to be the most eminent sculptor in Athens after the departure of Phidias for Olympia, but enigmatic in that none of the sculptures associated with his name in classical literature can be securely connected with existing copies.

The Thebans sent a large army into Thessaly to rescue Pelopidas, but they could not keep the field against the superior cavalry of Alexander, who, aided by auxiliaries from Athens, pursued them with great slaughter.

He was the first of its rulers to have relations with other countries ; he entered into an alliance with Hippias of Athens, and when Hippias was driven out of Athens he offered him the territory of Anthemus on the Thermaic Gulf.

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.

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

With Olynthus defeated, Amyntas was now able to conclude a treaty with Athens and keep the timber revenues for himself.

He left his native country to travel in pursuit of knowledge, and came to Athens about 589 BC, at a time when Solon was occupied with his legislative measures.

Anaximenes was hostile to Theopompus, whom he sought to discredit with a libelous parody, Trikaranos, published in Theopompus ' style and under his name, attacking Athens, Sparta, and Thebes.

The Pnyx with the speaker's platform, the meeting place of the people of Athens.

At times the imperialist democracy acted with extreme brutality, as in the decision to execute the entire male population of Melos and sell off its women and children simply for refusing to became subjects of Athens.

His relations with Athens were already strained when he returned to Babylon in 324 BC ; after his death, Athens and Sparta led several Greek states to war with Macedon and lost.