Athens
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also in the atlas: Athens the place
the Athenians · the power of Athens
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On the Commonwealth
The citizens and state of Athens, cited repeatedly as a case study in political behavior and constitution.
Nor indeed are there lacking examples of the fickleness and cruelty of the Athenians toward their greatest citizens;
and though the Athenians, at certain times, when the Areopagus had been done away with, did nothing save by the votes and decrees of the people, yet, since they had no distinct degrees of rank, their state did not keep its proper ornament.
when the sun was darkened and sudden shadows fell, and the greatest fear had seized the minds of the Athenians, that famous Pericles, foremost of his state in authority and eloquence and counsel, is said to have taught his fellow citizens what he himself had received from Anaxagoras, whose pupil he had been:
Consolation to Marcia
The Athenian polity, whose military power was famously broken at Syracuse during the Sicilian Expedition, referenced as a historical event visible at the site.
You will see the spot where the power of Athens was broken, where that natural prison, with its rocks cut to an infinite depth, had shut in so many thousands of captives—the huge city itself, and a territory broader than the bounds of many cities, the mildest of winters, and not a day without the visiting of the sun.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The city-state of Athens and its citizen body, the dominant naval power whose empire begins unraveling after the Sicilian disaster.
At the close of the same summer, there sailed from Athens a thousand Athenian heavy-armed, fifteen hundred of the Argives, (for five hundred of the Argives who were lightarmed, were provided with full armour by the Athenians,) and a thousand of the allies, in forty-eight ships, some of which were transports, under the command of Phrynichus, Onomacles, and Scironides:
In this way, with an incomplete victory, the Athenians immediately broke up their camp, and retired from Miletus;
WHEN the news was brought to Athens, for a long time they disbelieved even the most respectable of the soldiers, who had escaped from the very scene of action, and gave them a correct account of it;