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Some of the most important figures of Western cultural and intellectual history lived in Athens during this period: the dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes, the physician Hippocrates, the philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, the historians Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon, the poet Simonides, the orators ...
Some of the most important figures of Western cultural and intellectual history lived in Athens during this period: the dramatists Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides and Sophocles, the philosophers Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates, the historians Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon, the poet Simonides and the sculptor Phidias.
People from Athens by occupation (18 C) A. Ancient Athenians (10 C, 54 P) B. Byzantine Athenians (12 P) F. Fictional characters from Athens (3 P) Pages in category ...
Metics whose family had lived in Athens for generations may have been tempted to "pass" as citizens. On a number of occasions there were purges of the citizen lists, effectively changing people who had been living as citizens into metics. In typical Athenian fashion, a person so demoted could mount a challenge in court.
The municipality (Center) of Athens is the most populous in Greece, with a population of 643,452 people (in 2021) [4] and an area of 38.96 km 2 (15.04 sq mi), [7] forming the core of the Athens Urban Area within the Attica Basin.
In Athens, the population was divided into four social classes based on wealth. People could change classes if they made more money. In Sparta, all male citizens were called homoioi, meaning "peers". However, Spartan kings, who served as the city-state's dual military and religious leaders, came from two families. [83]
The Parthenon of Athens, built in the 5th century BC following the Greek victory in the Persian wars. Fifth-century Athens was the Greek city-state of Athens in the time from 480 to 404 BC. Formerly known as the Golden Age of Athens, the latter part being the Age of Pericles, it was buoyed by political hegemony, economic growth and cultural ...
Lycurgus of Athens, one of the ten notable orators at Athens, (4th century BC) Lycurgus (of Nemea), king; Lycurgus of Sparta, creator of constitution of Sparta; Lycurgus of Thrace, king, opponent of Dionysus; Lycurgus, a.k.a. Lycomedes, in Homer; Lycus – historian; Lydiadas – Megalopolitan general; Lygdamis of Naxos – tyrant of Naxos ...