Athenians

The Melians attempted to persuade the Athenians to leave them alone. According to Thucydides, the Athenians would have none of it.

For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.

Like the Athenians, the Visigoths also disappeared, but not before they had ushered in the period known as the Dark Ages.

Solon, for instance, produced out of his head the laws he gave to the Athenians.

But, overrun by its enemies, starving, and with the ideology of democracy itself in question, the Athenians took a more fundamentalist view.

Spartan empire replaced that of the Athenians , and it moved to suppress democracy throughout the Greek world.

The flame reachs Acropolis after a journey across five continents and was cheered on by thousands of Athenians and tourists across the city.

Theseus could not have demonstrated his ability if he had not found the Athenians dispersed.

was constantly turning the tables on his confident opponents in argument, he was considered by many Athenians to be just another Sophist.

After Pericles'death, the Athenians'unrestrained desire resulted in the Sicilian expedition and finally led to a huge failure and much pain.

A prayer of the Athenians: Rain, rain, O dear Zeus, down on the ploughed fields of the Athenians and on the plains.

Ancient Athenians would probably have regarded the British and American political systems as oligarchic.

Yet Athenians were also saying, with wistful smiles, that, for the past ten years or so, it had been a good party.

His only wish was to tell the Athenians that their country was safe.

But now the need was to protect the free Athenians against the return of such slavery .

Athenians take pride in the accomplishments of their ancestors, and people from all around the world come to admire them.

As one developing country foreign minister said to me: "The Athenians had nothing to offer to the Spartans. "

Plato wrote it as a warning to his fellow Athenians that wealth and power lead to destruction if they are not grounded in virtue.

Plato's purpose was to warn his fellow Athenians to pull back from the precipice created by war and wealth.

Athenians sentenced the death penalty to Socrates for " impiety " and "corrupting the youth" , which is the last tragedy of ancient Greece.

This is why many sensible people continue to think the Athenians had a point in condemning Socrates to death.

Therefore, in approaching a work of art, Athenians prepare their imagination through learning and experience.

"Old people flirt, married people flirt, now young people are simply using technology to do what Athenians have always done. "

But this is not difficult, O Athenians, to escape death, but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death.

Although outnumbered, the Spartans and Athenians were more tactical, heavily armed, and had higher morale.

But when the Athenians condemn a hero, much as they condemned Socrates, Adam forsakes democracy and moves on to harmless, worldly pleasure.

The Athenians honored Zeno with a crown, statue, and the city keys.

A generous amnesty succeeded in preventing any further bloodshed among Athenians.

The hill where St. Paul addressed early Christian Athenians is located near the Acropolis.

Ancient Athenians removed their refuse to dumps outside the main part of the city.

The ships of the Athenians and their allies sulked unhelpfully .

This helped to check the arbitrary justice of the nobles as, for the first time, it extended knowledge of the laws to all Athenians.

The Athenians, when they heard what had happened to Thebes, very quickly surrendered.

Spartan commander who defeated the Athenians in the final battle of the Peloponnesian War (d. 395 BC).

The well-born young Athenians who gathered around Socrates.

See, rumor has it. . . the Athenians have already turned you down.

In their use of language, Athenians strive for grace, precision, and variety.

If there's one thing everyone knows about ancient Athenians it is that they were democrats.

But at night, uncertain Athenians stayed away from the normally bustling city center, which was ghostly quiet.

To simplify a little, the Athenians favoured pure democracy ( "people rule" , though in fact oligarchs often had the last word);

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