Attic pleaders did not hesitate to attribute to him ( Solon ) any law which suited their case, and later writers had no criterion by which to distinguish earlier from later works.

The early Attic alphabet still did not distinguish between long and short vowels ( i. e. ε and η, ο and ω ).

On 17 February 2007, Therese, featuring The Attic, ended up in 7th place in Melodifestivalen's semifinal, but did not qualify any further in the contest.

In contrast to Attic painting, for example, the proportions of the pottery foundation did not evolve much.

One possibility is that the Romans did not regard this Hellenistic altar as important since it did not date from the classic epoch of Greek, especially Attic, art.

The Attic potters had to find new markets ; they did so in the Black Sea area.

In 1980, Parissi moved to New York City, met members of Billy Squier's band, and did recording sessions with them and at the same time, also met Ellie Greenwich and together with Jeff Kent, they wrote songs, one of which was recorded by Ellen Foley (" Boys In The Attic ") and became a hit in England and other parts of Europe.

Although this showed great initiative and conviction by the group, this inexplicably did not please Attic.

Although it hit platinum sales it was a major change in musical direction and as a result, alienated some of the younger fans they attracted with their first two offerings ... while it did garner major AOR radioplay and was well-received, the record company wasn't willing to nurture & develop the new direction and following, and as a result Attic shelved the album without a third video as promised-again.

Once again, Attic did not deliver.

The original line up of Aleka's Attic included River as lead singer and played guitar ; his younger sister Rain sang, but, contrary to many incorrect reports, did not play keyboards in the band ( although she did play various percussion, such as tambourine ); Josh McKay was the bass player ; Josh Greenbaum, a friend of River ’ s from Florida, was the drummer.

* mogionti ( Ionic pyressousi ) " they are on fire, have fever " (= Attic mogousi " they suffer, take pains to ")

The Greater Mysteries took place in Boedromion ( the third month of the Attic calendar, falling in late Summer ) and lasted ten days.

* Attic chōrā ~ Ionic chōrē " place ", " country "

* The Attic adjectival ending-eios and corresponding noun ending, both two-syllable with the diphthong ei, stand in place of ēios, with three syllables, in other dialects: politeia, Cretan politēia, " constitution ", both from politewia, where the w drops out.

There is confusion also about his place of birth, " Megara ", which Plato for example understood to be Megara Hyblaea in Sicily, while a scholiast on Plato cites Didymus for the rival theory that the poet was born in a Megara in Attica, and ventures the opinion that Theognis might have later migrated to the Sicilian Megara ( a similar theory had assigned an Attic birthplace to the Spartan poet Tyrtaeus ).

: In contracted verbs, where Attic employs an-ω -, Homeric Greek will use-οω-or-ωω-in place of-αο -.

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.

The month Anthesterion is named after the festival, not vice versa, and since the month's name is not restricted to the Attic calendar, but was known also in Ionia, it was considered by the Ancients that the festival predates the Ionian colonisation, making it the oldest datable part of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

But Proto-Greek long ā → Attic ē after w ( digamma ), deleted by Classical Period.

In Attic-Ionic the stem vowel has changed to long e ( eta ) in the singular, except ( in Attic only ) after e, i, r: gnome, gnomes, gnome ( i ), gnomen, etc., " opinion ", but thea, theas, thea ( i ), thean, etc., " goddess.

In Attic Greek an original genitive singular ending *- osyo after losing the s ( as happens in all the dialects ) lengthens the stem o to the spurious diphthong-ou ( see above under Phonology, Vowels ): logos " the word ", logou from * logosyo, " of the word ".

— Attic: ā after e, i, r, but ē elsewhere.

Demetrius was the last among the Attic orators worthy of the name, after which the activity went into a decline.

Developing out of these works in the period after his first show were complex, agitated abstractions such as Asheville ( 1948 / 49 ), Attic ( 1949 ), and Excavation ( 1950 ; Art Institute of Chicago ), which reintroduced color and seem to sum up with taut decisiveness the problems of free-associative composition he had struggled with for many years.

Named after an Attic kouros found at Volomandra ( NAMA 1906 ) and a Corinthian specimen from Tenea ( Munich 168 ) this period marks the flowering of the Middle Archaic, and these kouroi are contemporary with such works as the Berlin Standing Kore, the Moschophoros and the Bluebeard Pediment.

Attic production is considerable up to c. 500 BC after which it seems to peter out.

# Regarding the events before the Olympiads, consider how the Attic chronologers reckon: from the time of Ogygus, during whose tenure the first great flood occurred in Attica, while Phoroneus was ruling the Argives, as Acusilaus records, up to the time of the first year of the first Olympiad, the point after which the Greeks consider time to be reckoned more accurately, 1020 years passed, which agrees with those mentioned earlier and with those who were listed in order.

Atticism was portrayed as a return to Classical methods after what was perceived as the pretentious style of the Hellenistic, Sophist rhetoric and called for a return to the approaches of the Attic orators.

Although his prose work is detailed in the strung-out, non-periodic style typical of Hellenistic Greek prose before the revival of the Attic style after Cicero, Philodemus surpassed the average literary standard to which most epicureans aspired.

Songs in the Attic introduced Billy Joel's early work to fans who had only come to know his work after The Stranger, according to liner notes written by Joel.

The Attic cults of Herakles were often closely connected with youth: at several of his cult sites there was a gymnasion attached, and there was a mythological tradition ( perhaps originating in Boeotia ) that after Heracles died he was translated to Olympus, where he married Hebe, the personification of youth.

Famous scholars who continued the study of Attic red-figure after Beazley include John Boardman, Erika Simon and Dietrich von Bothmer.

Ikaria was such a large deme that it sent five ( 5 ) representatives annually to the Council of 500, and it belonged to the tribe Αεγεις, named after the Attic hero Aegeus who also gave his name to the Aegean Sea.

Soon after Attic Entertainment Software joined Larian and Unless was turned into The Lady, the Mage and the Knight, a game set in the universe of The Dark Eye.

Albums from 1982-1989 were released on Attic Records in Canada and Windham Hill in the United States, albums from 1989-1996 were released on BMG's Scotti Brothers imprint, and albums after 1997 were released on Shoreline Records.

The second demo was recorded between 16 – 18 July 1994 at Attic Studios, shortly after which, Jones left the band.

* Antiochis, an Athenian Phyle was named Antiochis after Antiochus a mythical Attic hero.

By the time lower case letters, iota subscripts, accent marks, rough or smooth breathing marks over letters, and punctuation appeared in written Greek in the Middle Ages, Attic Greek writings had not been produced by native speakers for some centuries.

Apollo ( Attic, Ionic, and Homeric Greek:, Apollōn ( gen .: ); Doric:, Apellōn ; Arcadocypriot:, Apeilōn ; Aeolic:, Aploun ; ) is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in ancient Greek and Roman religion, Greek and Roman mythology, and Greco – Roman Neopaganism.

* Ainia, presumably accompanied Penthesilea to the Trojan War, killed by Achilles ; known only from an Attic terracotta relief fragment.

In early Attic and Boeotian vase-paintings ( see below ), they are depicted with the hindquarters of a horse attached to them ; in later renderings centaurs are given the torso of a human joined at the waist to the horse's withers, where the horse's neck would be.

In Homer, her saffron-coloured robe is embroidered or woven with flowers ; rosy-fingered and with golden arms, she is pictured on Attic vases as a beautiful woman, crowned with a tiara or diadem and with the large white-feathered wings of a bird.

Important works from the 100s include the Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius, a collection of anecdotes and reports of literary discussions among his friends ; and the letters of the orator Marcus Cornelius Fronto to Marcus Aurelius.

On an Attic red-figured bell krater of ca 440 BC in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Persephone is rising as if up stairs from a cleft in the earth, while Hermes stands aside ; Hecate, holding two torches, looks back as she leads her to the enthroned Demeter.

An independent Pandora tradition that does not square with any of the literary sources is the tradition in the visual repertory of Attic red-figure vase-painters, which sometimes supplements, sometimes ignores, the written testimony ; in these representations the upper part of Pandora is visible rising from the earth, " a chthonic goddess like Gaia herself.

Diogenes Laertius states that Xenophon was sometimes known as the " Attic Muse " for the sweetness of his diction ; very few poets wrote in the Attic dialect.

Sparta ( Doric: ; Attic: ), or Lacedaemon, was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece, situated on the banks of the Eurotas River in Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese.

His most important work is perhaps the trilogy The Human Predicament, of which only the first two volumes, The Fox in the Attic ( 1961 ) and The Wooden Shepherdess ( 1973 ), were complete when he died ; twelve chapters, under 50 pages, of the final volume are now published.

Marathon ( Demotic Greek: Μαραθώνας, Marathónas ; Attic / Katharevousa:, ) is a town in Greece, the site of the battle of Marathon in 490 BC, in which the heavily outnumbered Athenian army defeated the Persians.

* Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar: Infection in the Sentence ; The Madwoman in the Attic

* Attic Nights ( Latin text: complete ; English translation: Preface thru Book 13 )

The island of Delos (, ; Attic, Doric ), near Mykonos, near the centre of the Cyclades archipelago, is one of the most important mythological, historical and archaeological sites in Greece.

Athenians of the Classical age were aware that the festival was of great antiquity ; Walter Burkert points out that the mythic reflection of this is the Attic founder-king Theseus ' release of Ariadne to Dionysus, but this is no longer considered a dependable sign that the festival had been celebrated in the Minoan period.

" Old Attic " is a term used for the dialect of Thucydides ( 460-400 BC ) and the dramatists of Athens ' remarkable 5th century ; " New Attic " is used for the language of later writers.

* early * genes-os → Ionic geneos → Attic genous " of a kind " ( genitive singular ; Latin generis with r from rhotacism )

to have offered Athenian citizenship to foreigners who would relocate to his city to practice a craft ; indeed, in the period of Solon, Attic pottery flourished.

Baiter's strong point was textual criticism, applied chiefly to Cicero and the Attic orators ; he was very successful in finding the best manuscript authorities, and his collations were made with the greatest accuracy.