The author is identified as " Dionysos " in the corpus, which later incorrectly came to be attributed to Dionysius the Areopagite, the Athenian convert of St. Paul mentioned in.

According to an anonymous biographer of Aeschylus, the Athenians chose Simonides ahead of Aeschylus to be the author of an epigram honouring their war-dead at Marathon, which led the tragedian ( who had fought at the battle and whose brother had died there ) to withdraw sulking to the court of Hieron of Syracuse — the story is probably based on the inventions of comic dramatists but it is likely that Simonides did in fact write some kind of commemorative verses for the Athenian victory at Marathon.

Anabasis of Alexander is perhaps his best known work and is generally considered one of the best sources on the campaigns of Alexander the Great, not to be confused with Anabasis, then best-known work of the Athenian military leader and author Xenophon from the 4th century BC.

Nearly 800 writers and 2500 separate works are referred to by Athenaeus ; one of his characters ( not necessarily to be identified with the historical author himself ) boasts of having read 800 plays of Athenian Middle Comedy alone.

Critias ( Greek Kritias, 460 BC – 403 BC ) was an ancient Athenian political figure and author.

Olorus was also the name of the father of the 5th century BC Athenian historian Thucydides, the author of the History of the Peloponnesian War.

Plato was not the only Ancient Greek author writing about the law systems of his day, and making comparisons between the Athenian and the Spartan ( Lacedaemonian ) laws.

The author, who appears to be an Athenian, regards the Athenian democracy as undesirable, as giving the mob undue voice in the state ; but he argues that it is well-designed for its purpose, if you wanted so vile a thing to be done.

* Callistratus, an Athenian poet, known only as the author of a drinking song in honor of Harmodius and Aristogeiton ( c. 500 BC )

He also wrote the first periodical and the first dictionary designed specifically for women: The Ladies ' Mercury-an imitation of his wider Athenian project-and acting here as the publisher more than the author: The ladies dictionary, being a general entertainment of the fair-sex, a work never attempted before in English ( 1694 ).

* The Athenian soldier and statesman, Aristides, as well as the former Athenian archon Xanthippus, return from banishment in Aegina to serve under Themistocles against the Persians.

** Nicias, Athenian soldier and statesman ( b. 470 BC )

* The Athenian soldier and statesman, Aristides " the Just ", is made chief archon of Athens.

The Athenian soldier and statesman, Aristides, is one of those ostracised due to his opposition to Themistocles ' naval policy.

This Athenian soldier first completed a two-day run to seek Spartan help against the invading Persians in the Battle of Marathon, and then ran from the town of Marathon to Athens days later to announce the victory, dying as a result of his heroic efforts.

* Nicias, Athenian soldier and statesman ( b. 470 BC )

* The Athenian leader Cleon and Athenian general Demosthenes revitalise the city's military and naval forces despite opposition from Nicias, a rich merchant and soldier, and his supporters.

He is not to be confused with the earlier and more famous Athenian soldier and historian, Xenophon.

Aristides was an Athenian soldier and statesman.

On Horsemanship is the English title usually given to, peri hippikēs, one of the two treatises on horsemanship by the Athenian historian and soldier Xenophon ( c. 430 – 354 BC ).

Xenophon the Athenian: The Problem of the Individual and the Society of the " Polis ".

The Athenian general Xenophon, for example, sent his two sons to Sparta as trophimoi.

Think of the barren image we should have of Socrates, had the works of Plato and Xenophon not come down to us and were we wholly dependent upon Aristophanes ' description of this Athenian philosopher.

p. 455 ) that he was an Athenian writer, intermediate in date between Thucydides and Xenophon, and that his work continued the narrative of Thucydides, from the point at which the latter historian stopped ( 410 BC ) down to the Battle of Cnidus.

Xenophon, in contrast, relates that the entire Athenian fleet came out as usual on the day of the battle, and Lysander remained in the harbor.

In 401 BC, for instance, the Athenian general Xenophon gave a speech exhorting his fellow soldiers to fight against the Persians.

According to Xenophon, they were alarmed at the growing power of Thebes and weary of fending off Spartan fleets alone as the Thebans were not contributing any money to maintaining the Athenian fleet.

Xenophon, another Athenian, is the only contemporary who grudgingly notes some Theban accomplishments, and even then, never in-depth and with numerous omissions.

* Xenophon, Respublica Atheniensium ( On the Athenian Constitution ; 3rd ed., 1889 )

The allegory can be traced back to the Athenian sophist Prodicus of Ceos, as preserved in Xenophon.

The Cyropaedia ( or Cyropedia ) is a biography " of Cyrus the Great, written in the early 4th century BC by the Athenian gentleman-soldier, and student of Socrates, Xenophon of Athens.

Some scholars have suggested that what accounts for the difference is that Xenophon wished to avoid the explicit attribution of " wisdom ", a term which, to the average Athenian, would suggest that Socrates indeed was properly characterized as an atheistic natural philosopher as Aristophanes had done.

It has often been argued that Xenophon is here responding not to charges in the air at time of the trial of Socrates in 399 BCE, but to charges made some years later by the Athenian sophist Polycrates in his Accusation of Socrates.

The Constitution of the Athenians ( or Athenaion Politeia, or The Athenian constitution ) is the name of either of two texts from Classical antiquity, one probably by Aristotle or a student of his, the other attributed to Xenophon, but not by him.

Included in the shorter works of Xenophon is a hostile treatise about the Athenian Constitution.

The area included the ancient Athenian demes of Erkhiá ( Ερχιά ), the birthplace of the historian and general Xenophon, and Kýthēros ( Κύθηρος ); a Mycenean cemetery has been excavated at the southern edge of town, the exhibits being hosted in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.

A case can be made that discriminatory lines came to be drawn more sharply under Athenian democracy than before or elsewhere, in particular in relation to woman and slaves, as well as in the line between citizens and non-citizens.

As a result, his reports about Greek events are often coloured by Athenian bias against rival states-Thebes and Corinth in particular.

By contrast, an Athenian trial needed the initiative of a particular citizen-prosecutor.

Rising to particular importance in Athenian democracy at this time was Cleon, a leader of the hawkish elements of the Athenian democracy.

Bury, however, have noted parallels between them: If, instead of a history, Thucydides had written an analytical treatise on politics, with particular reference to the Athenian empire, it is probable that.

Meanwhile tragedy, as developed by Athenian dramatists of the calibre of Aeschylus and Sophocles, had begun to emerge as the leading poetic genre, borrowing the literary dialect, the metres and poetic devices of lyric poetry in general and the dithyramb in particular ( Aristotle Poetics IV 1449a ).

* After recovering from illness, Philip II of Macedon turns his attention to the remaining Athenian controlled cities in Macedonia and to the city of Olynthus, in particular.

How it fared in that festival's drama competition is unknown but it is now considered one of Aristophanes ' most brilliant parodies of Athenian society, with a particular focus on the subversive role of women in a male-dominated society, the vanity of contemporary poets, such as the tragic playwrights Euripides and Agathon, and the shameless, enterprising vulgarity of an ordinary Athenian, as represented in this play by the protagonist, Mnesilochus.

Moreover, in most positions chosen by lot, Athenian citizens could not be selected more than once ; this rotation in office meant that no-one could build up a power base through staying in a particular position.

In On Poets, which is quoted by Athenaeus, he seems to have paid particular attention to the Athenian musicians and comedians.

The Athenian society took it as one of their particular goals to spread learning in the vernacular.