Athenian men and Athenian blood?

Athenian Plague begins in Athens.

Barsine. And this, Stratocles, Athenian senator.

In tribute to the heroic Athenian dead,

Isn't that the way an Athenian gentleman behaves?

Thocian, general. Charidemus, commander of the Athenian fleet.

All Athenian prisoners of war shall go free.

Now Hyperides was an Athenian orator from the fourth century B.C.

Our new Athenian ships, manned by the bravest sailors in the world.

From this day onward, every Athenian ship will sail under Spartan orders.

Then, I've discovered, with wonder, the brilliant ideas that founded the Athenian democracy.

It was such a great speech that the Athenian law courts let him off.

We need wait for the Athenian fleet no longer. Let's face it here, now, in Miletus.

Socrates, Plato s teacher, famously goaded the Athenian authorities by maintaining that he was wiser than the Oracle at Delphi, who claimed to be the wisest, because he, unlike most people (including the Athenian authorities), knew that he did not know anything.

You propose to go on... without the Athenian fleet, without support, with a lifeline that stretches back more than a thousand leagues into Macedonia.

Irene of Athens or Irene the Athenian () (c. 752 9 August 803) is the commonly known name of Irene Sarantapechaina (), Byzantine empress regnant from 797 to 802.

As a result, Plato accused such democracies of lacking rules outside where its citizens see fit and lacking leadership due to the notion of equality in Athenian democracy.

There was an epidemic of smallpox in Athens in 430 BC, in which a quarter of the Athenian army and many of the city's civilians died from the infection.

So this is the discovery of a lost voice from antiquity, speaking to us, not from the grave, because his grave doesn't exist, but from the Athenian law courts.

The lack of coherent unity in Athenian democracy made Plato conclude that such democracies were a mere collection of individuals occupying a common space rather than a form of political organization.

If we think about this as looking back to the frieze on the parthenon from the Golden Age of Greece, those figures are all ideally beautiful, they don't represent anyone specific so much as the Athenian people, generally.

That comedy focuses on the effects of the Peloponnesian war and the efforts of an Athenian woman named Lysistrata to stop the war and secure peace through negotiations with and the support of other women from the enemy cities of Sparta and Corinth.

That would not have been news to the Athenian leaders who considered what Socrates was doing to be sufficiently disturbing to put him to death for corrupting the youth. Nor will it be news to anyone familiar with the many successful efforts to bring philosophy to a broader market.