Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. From LearnThat.org. [Plutarch , Source: On Banishment.]
You need to go to a place called the Athenian Room on Webster. From Wordnik.com. [Tina Fey Loves Chicago: Dining Tips From '30 Rock' Creator (VIDEO)] Reference
Having sent off two of his ships to recall the Athenian squadron from its voyage to. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from Thucydides] Reference
The point is, the so-called Athenian democracy was an oligarchy of rich, well-educated men. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Democracy and Political Knowledge in Ancient Athens — Why Ancient Athenian Voters Were Not as Ignorant as We Have Been Taught to Think:] Reference
We strolled a few blocks to a restaurant in the Pike Street Market called the Athenian Inn. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
Bob Sykes writes of “the so-called Athenian democracy was an oligarchy of rich, well-educated men”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Democracy and Political Knowledge in Ancient Athens — Why Ancient Athenian Voters Were Not as Ignorant as We Have Been Taught to Think:] Reference
So the gods assembled, in the presence of Cecrops himself, on the "hill of Erechtheus" -- afterward known as the Athenian. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
The Athenian was a fine runner, but Lepidus knew that Leonidas would accelerate into the last bend and leave him gasping. From Wordnik.com. [Lion Of Macedon]
Aristophanes jocosely calls the Athenian pieces owls of Laurium, in allusion to the gold mines there, in which they were hatched. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886] Reference
The DVD, which features the band performing hits such as Athenian tragedy takes stage. From Wordnik.com. [MISSISSAUGA - Home] Reference
First, one had to be an Athenian, meaning a person more or less identified with Athenian culture. From Wordnik.com. [Israpundit] Reference
"Athenian" Stuart was commissioned to rebuild it, and ten years later his Rococo masterpiece was completed. From Wordnik.com. [FREE MARKET FAIRY TALES] Reference
Points of interest: "Athenian" Chares with 2,000 of Persian soldiers fighting against Alexander's Macedonians. From Wordnik.com. [American Chronicle] Reference
Athenian peasant hated Aristides, and for the same reason. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
For nowhere is it (plain) that Agoratus is an Athenian as it is that. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Lysias] Reference
Athenian, the citizen of another Hellenic community, and the barbarian. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Phocion, an Athenian general and statesman, a noble and high-minded man. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
Whichever course he followed, they would have been as rich as any Athenian. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Lysias] Reference
But if he says he did not, ask him on what account he says he became an Athenian. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Lysias] Reference
Socrates, an Athenian philosopher (469-399 B.C.), founder of the dialectic method. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
By comparison, this year's City Charter Commission looks like an Athenian democracy. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Green: Changing the NYC City Charter. Again?] Reference
It was through no accident that the Athenian state rose and flourished upon the shores of the. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Athenæus of licentiousness and debauchery, particularly when he commanded the Athenian army. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
After he married Eileen McGann in 1977, he writes, "I changed from a Spartan to an Athenian.". From Wordnik.com. [See Dick Run The Country] Reference
Manning that miraculous Athenian fleet was its citizen body: Athens had no professional army. From Wordnik.com. [The National Theatre of Wales does battle with Aeschylus's The Persians] Reference
What made war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear this caused in Sparta. From Wordnik.com. [Birute Regine: Peace and the Gathering Power of Women] Reference
The plots of other extant tragedies in the Athenian corpus traffic with the deep mythological past. From Wordnik.com. [The National Theatre of Wales does battle with Aeschylus's The Persians] Reference
The Athenian citizen two millenniums ago had no such mastery over the forces of nature as we possess today. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
But he lies, gentlemen of the jury, for he neither killed Phrynichus nor did the people make him an Athenian. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Lysias] Reference
Or is it a miraculous essay in empathy, inviting the Athenian audience to pity the defeated in their humiliation?. From Wordnik.com. [The National Theatre of Wales does battle with Aeschylus's The Persians] Reference
Imagine how the Plataeans feel -- well, would feel -- whenever Marathon is memorialized as a great Athenian victory. From Wordnik.com. [Asher Smith: 2,500 Years Later, Political Lessons From Marathon] Reference
Though he was a Rhodian by birth, he had the address to persuade the Athenian multitude that he was a native of Athens. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference
The Battle of Salamis is named for the island off the coast of Attica to which Athenian noncombatants had been evacuated. From Wordnik.com. [The National Theatre of Wales does battle with Aeschylus's The Persians] Reference
It was mass entertainment: 1,600 people once turned out in Glasgow to hear her talk on Athenian gravestones (those were the days). From Wordnik.com. [My hero: Jane Ellen Harrison] Reference
Almost everything we think we know about classical Sparta is based on Athenian and Roman wet dreams and dubious political fantasies. From Wordnik.com. [300: Dead and Counting] Reference
Athens, the seats set apart for strangers were filled with Spartan boys; and other seats, not far distant, were filled with Athenian youth. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
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