Thus while Athens was increasing her navy with the funds they contributed, a revolt always found itself without enough resources or experienced leaders for war.

The League found itself unable to create a new political system, until the league summoned the Cretan politician Eleutherios Venizelos to Athens as its political adviser.

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 ).

Doubtless there is a considerable historical element in the legend, perhaps in the Phoenician origin of Europa ; it is possible that not only Athens, but Mycenae itself, were once culturally bound to the kings of Knossos, as Minoan objects appear at Mycenaean sites.

The economic costs of the war were felt all across Greece ; poverty became widespread in the Peloponnese, while Athens found itself completely devastated, and never regained its pre-war prosperity.

The rebels quickly secured the support of a Persian satrap, and Athens found itself facing the prospect of revolts throughout the empire.

While this invasion deprived Athenians of the productive land around their city, Athens itself was able to maintain access to the sea, and did not suffer much.

Revolt and faction threatened in Athens itself.

The work of the IOC increasingly focused on the planning the 1896 Athens Games, and de Coubertin played a background role as Greek authorities took the lead in logistical organisation of the Games in Greece itself, offering technical advice such as a sketch of a design of a velodrome to be used in cycling competitions.

In the late 5th century BC, Syracuse found itself at war with Athens, which sought more resources to fight the Peloponnesian War.

Athens supports Plataea while Sparta aligns itself with Thebes.

* Athens allies itself with Thebes and forms the Second Athenian Empire.

Olynthus had at first allied itself with Philip, but later shifted its allegiance to Athens.

In Greece, endeavours were made during the 1980s and 1990s to organise such an event, but it was not until 2005 that Athens Pride established itself.

Athens, like other Greek city states in the 7th Century BC, was faced with increasing population pressures and by about 525 BC it was able to feed itself only in ' good years '.

In the wake of this defeat, Athens found itself facing a crisis of unprecedented magnitude.

The threat from the Spartan army leads Pericles to arrange, by bribery and by negotiation, that Athens will give up its mainland possessions and confine itself to a largely maritime empire.

* Athens allies itself with the city state of Megara which is under pressure from Corinth.

Although Ephialtes maintains that Sparta is Athens ' rival for power and should be left to fend for itself, Kimon's view prevails.

The 5th-century poet Telestes doubted that virginal Athena could have been motivated by such vanity, but in the 2nd century AD, on the Acropolis of Athens itself, the voyager Pausanias saw " a statue of Athena striking Marsyas the Silenos for taking up the flutes that the goddess wished to be cast away for good.

He was the founder and the first king of Athens itself, though preceded in the region by the earth-born king Actaeus of Attica.

It is called « Lycian » not after Lycia itself, but after its identification with a lost work described by Lucian as being on show in the Lykeion, one of the gymnasia of Athens.

* In a search for a balance of power against the now powerful Thebes, Athens responds to an appeal for help from Sparta and allies itself with its traditional enemy.

By 395 BC, Thebes, alongside Athens, Corinth, and Argos, found itself arrayed against Sparta ( a former ally ) in the Corinthian War.

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.

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

Most accounts incorrectly attribute this story to Herodotus ; actually, the story first appears in Plutarch's On the Glory of Athens in the 1st century AD, who quotes from Heracleides of Pontus's lost work, giving the runner's name as either Thersipus of Erchius or Eucles.

On the other hand, centers of learning as the Platonic Academy in Athens and the famous law school of Beirut lost their importance during his reign.

There is a Homeric hymn to Poseidon, who was the protector of many Hellenic cities, although he lost the contest for Athens to Athena.

Lycomedes of the island of Skyros threw Theseus off a cliff after he had lost popularity in Athens.

The island was nearly lost to Athens by two attempts of the oligarchic faction to effect a revolution ; on each occasion the popular party ultimately won the day and took a most bloody revenge on its opponents ( 427 BC and 425 BC ). The lion of Menekrates at the Archaeological Museum of CorfuDuring the Sicilian campaigns of Athens Corcyra served as a supply base ; after a third abortive rising of the oligarchs in 410 BC it practically withdrew from the war.

Caria and Lycia came to the attention of Athens, most powerful state remaining in Greece, which also had lost its central government ruling from Mycenae, now burned and nearly vacant.

The account of the run near Marathon to Athens first appears in Plutarch's On the Glory of Athens in the 1st century AD, which quotes from Heraclides Ponticus ' lost work, giving the runner's name as either Thersipus of Erchius or Eucles.

This development had a direct effect on the sculptural decoration of temples, as many of the greatest extant works of Ancient Greek sculpture once adorned temples, and many of the largest recorded statues of the age, such as the lost chryselephantine statues of Zeus at the Temple of Zeus at Olympia and Athena at the Parthenon, Athens, both over 40 feet high, were once housed in them.

Athens had lost its bid to organize the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta nearly seven years before, on 18 September 1990, during the 96th IOC Session in Tokyo.

Both cities gradually lost influence to Athens, which saw Euboea as a strategic territory.

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

Minotaur, from a fountain in Athens, part of Myron's lost group of Theseus and the Minotaur ( National Archaeological Museum of Athens )

Eleusis lost the battle with Athens but the Eumolpides and Kerykes, two families of priests to Demeter, continued the Eleusinian mysteries.

After the decisive defeat at Crannon ( 322 BCE ) in which Athens and her allies lost their independence, Hypereides and the other orators, were condemned to death by the Athenian supporters of Macedon.

During 1388-90, John gradually lost all lands of the Duchies of Athens and Neopatras in Greece.

* Pericles: The dominant politician in pre-war Athens who once famously bribed a Spartan general to avoid battle and subsequently accounted for the bribe as " lost according to need ".

* Cleonymus: A conspicuous figure in Athens, he had recently lost his shield in the retreat from Delium.