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56 matches to Athens
Five Hundred, Council of. 508BC. Athens’ representative government.
Freedmen. Released slaves in Rome, Athens, US South.
Greece. c3000BC Minoan(Crete). c1500BC Achaean. 11C Aeolian, Ionian. c1100 Dorian. 683 Athens monarchy. 404 Sparta. 371 Thebes. 338 Macedonia...Alexander. 197BC Rome...Byzantine. 1453 AD Ottoman. 1829 Independent kingdom. 1912 +Crete. 1924 Republic. 1935 Constitutional Monarchy. 1973 Republic. 1981 EEC. 1994 EU.
Herodes Atticus. c101-177. Greek/Roman orator, banker. Gave major buildings to Athens.
Isocrates. 436-338BC. Athenian orator.
Kekraps. Phoenician King. Legendary founder of Athens.
King’s Peace. 387BC. Sparta, Persia, Athens. Corinthian War.
Libraries. 1700BC Chaldean. 540BC Athens. 284BC Alexandria. 167 Rome. 355 Constantinople. 1446 Vatican. 1520 Paris. 1757 British Museum. 1598 Oxford Bodleian. 1653 Manchester, First free public. 1800 US Library of Congress.
Lyceum. c335BC. Athenian school founded by Aristotle, called ’Peripatetics’.
Lycurgus. c390-324BC.Led short revival of Athens after Peloponnesian War.
Lysander. -395BC. Spartan admiral. Captured Athens 404BC. Ended Peloponnesian War.
Morosini. Venetian leader. Blew up Parthenon, Athens, 1687.
Nicias. -413BC. Athenian commander. Syracuse siege.
Olympics, Modern. 1896 Athens. 1900 Paris. 1904 St. Louis. 1908 London. 1912 Stockholm. 1920 Antwerp. Summer: 1924 Paris. 1928 Amsterdam. 1932 Los Angeles. 1936 Berlin. 1948 London. 1952 Helsinki. 1956 Melbourne. 1960 Rome. 1964 Tokyo. 1968 Mexico City. 1972 Munich. 1976 Montreal. 1980 Moscow. 1984 Los Angeles. 1988 Seoul. 1992 Barcelona. 1996 Atlanta. 2000 Sydney. 2004 Athens. 2008 Beijing. Winter: 1924 Chamonix. 1928 St Moritz. 1932 Lake Placid. 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen. 1948 St Moritz. 1952 Oslo. 1956 Cortina d’Ampezzo. 1960 Squaw Valley. 1964 Innsbruck. 1968 Grenoble 1972 Sapporo. 1976 Innsbruck. 1980 Lake Placid. 1984 Sarajevo. 1988 Calgary. 1992 Albertville. 1994 Lillehammer. 1998 Nagano. 2002 Salt Lake City. 2006 Torino. Olympia.
Ostracism. Athenian 10 year exile for disrupting stability.
Parthenon. 447-431BC. Marble Doric temple of Athena built by Phidias and Ictinus under Pericles on Athens Acropolis. Damaged by Venetians attacking Turks 1687.
Peisistratus. -527BC. Athenian Tyrant 560BC~. Attacked Ionia. Supported external trade, arts.
Peloponnesian War. 460-445BC. Athens vs Peloponnesian League.
Peloponnesian War, Second. 431-404BC. Sparta defeats Athens, beginning Greek decline.
Pericles. c495-429BC. Athenian leader 461-. Led to Athenian dominance of Greece. Parthenon. Height of democracy.
Piraeus. 5C BC-. Athenian port.
Plague. 429-425BC Athens. 33% died. 1347-53 Europe. (Black Death). Killed 25-50% population. 1603~65 England. 1720 Provençe. 1710 Scandinavia. 1894 China, Hong Kong. 100,000 died, 10M around world.
Potidaea. 432BC. Revolt vs Athens. Second Peloponnesian War.
Solon. 630-560BC. Athenian democratic lawgiver, poet. Equality of all citizens before the law. Trial by jury. -“Call no man happy until he is dead.”
Sparta. 9C BC-396. A dominant Greek city-state 6-4C BC. Peloponnesian War defeated rival Athens. 396 Visigoths destroy.