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In the classical period, Athens was a centre for the arts, learning, and philosophy, the home of Plato 's Academy and Aristotle 's Lyceum, [2] [3] Athens was also the birthplace of Socrates, Plato, Pericles, Aristophanes, Sophocles, and many other prominent philosophers, writers, and politicians of the ancient world. It is widely referred to as the cradle of Western Civilization, and the ...
Ἀθῆναι. Merah: Wlayah Athena pada tahun 431 SM, sebelum Perang Peloponnesos. Kota Athena pada periode Klasik di Yunani kuno ( 508 – 322 SM) [1] adalah sebuah polis ( negara kota) yang terkenal di Attika, Yunani, memimpin Liga Delos dalam Perang Pelopnnesos melawan Sparta dan Liga Peloponnesos.
Greece 1822–1827, 1832–present. Athens is one of the oldest named cities in the world, having been continuously inhabited for perhaps 5,000 years. Situated in southern Europe, Athens became the leading city of Ancient Greece in the first millennium BC, and its cultural achievements during the 5th century BC laid the foundations of Western ...
The Acropolis of Athens ( Ancient Greek: ἡ Ἀκρόπολις τῶν Ἀθηνῶν, romanized : hē Akropolis tōn Athēnōn; Modern Greek: Ακρόπολη Αθηνών, romanized : Akrópoli Athinón) is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens, Greece, and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historical significance ...
Athenian democracy developed around the 6th century BC in the Greek city-state (known as a polis) of Athens, comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica. Although Athens is the most famous ancient Greek democratic city-state, it was not the only one, nor was it the first; multiple other city-states adopted similar democratic constitutions before Athens. [1] [2] By the ...
Classical Greece was a period of around 200 years (the 5th and 4th centuries BC) in Ancient Greece, [1] marked by much of the eastern Aegean and northern regions of Greek culture (such as Ionia and Macedonia) gaining increased autonomy from the Persian Empire; the peak flourishing of democratic Athens; the First and Second Peloponnesian Wars; the Spartan and then Theban hegemonies; and the ...
