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Athens (pronounce /ˈæθənz/; Greek: Αθήνα Athina, IPA: [aˈθina]), the capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery: as one of the world's oldest cities, its recorded history spans at least 3,000 years.

Trivia about athens

  • Some say the Dark Ages began when Byzantine Emperor Justinian closed this city's school of philosophy in 529 A.D.
  • Kim Basinger hails from this Georgia city whose name may be Greek to you
  • Praise the gods! It's the city where you'll find the majestic ruins seen here (The Parthenon)
  • You'll find Greece's Parliament building on Syntagma Square in this capital
  • Historians refer to the Golden Age as the time during which Pericles ruled this city
  • Some fashionable women dyed their hair blue in this ancient Greek city, home of Socrates
  • The Hellenic Star is a leading newspaper in this European capital
  • In a 480 B.C. invasion, the Persians demolished many buildings on the Acropolis in this city
  • Arcesilaus founds the "Second Academy" of this city
  • Byzantine Museum,Acropolis Museum
  • In 1687, the Parthenon was badly damaged when the Venetians tried to conquer this city
  • The Stoics derived their name from a painted porch in this Greek city
  • This capital lies 5 miles from the Bay of Phaleron, an arm of the Aegean Sea
  • ...in Drama, if you can name this city that hosted the ancient drama festival called the City Dionysia
  • Mount Pentelicus, north of this capital, supplied the white marble for the buildings on the Acropolis
  • Among cradles of civilization, Gothic ruler Alaric sacked Rome but spared this Greek capital
  • The Kifisos & Ilisos rivers flow through this capital
  • The defeat of this city's invasion force at Syracuse in 413 B.C. was the beginning of its end & the start of Sparta's rise
  • When Greece gained indep. in 1829, this city had only a few thousand people; 4 years later, it became the capital
  • This L.A. sister city is not the one in Georgia or Ohio, but the one in Greece
  • Socrates
  • The play "God", set in this ancient city, features the characters Trichinosis & Bursitis
  • You can ride one line in this world capital from Kifissia to Pireas
  • At about 1,000 square miles, twice as big as L.A., it was the largest city-state of ancient Greece
  • Paul spoke on Aeropagus, a hill of this capital city of Attica, Greece
  • Solon, the poet & statesman, revised the Draconian Laws in this Greek city-state
  • Slaves & women were also allowed into the Garden, a school Epicurus founded in this city around 306 B.C.
  • With its own Parthenon, Nashville, Tennesse is this Greek city "of the South"
  • This capital's oldest residential area, the Plaka, lies behind the Acropolis
  • Eduard Schaubert helped guide the rebuilding of this Greek capital under King Otto
  • There's a University of Georgia campus in this city that shares its name with a European capital
  • The pageant was first broadcast live in 1973 from the Parthenon in this city
  • This capital city got torched in 2008 after the police shooting of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos
  • This ancient city is the capital of Greece
  • Climbing the Acropolis; shopping at the flea market in Monastiraki Square
  • Theseus, duke of this city in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", doesn't run into fellow resident Timon
  • Judges were chosen by lot for the drama competition known as the Dionysia in this city
  • 1896 summer games(an obvious choice)
  • On the Mediterranean:HE'S TAN
  • Thucydides, though from this city, tried to be fair to Sparta in narrating the Peloponnesian War
  • Hostel Aphrodite & Hotel Achilleas
  • The appropriate site of the first modern Olympics
  • About this city Pindar wrote, "O bright & violet-crowned and famed in song, bulwark of Greece"
  • In the summer residents of this capital city suffer through the "nefos", a type of smog
  • This capital city's port, Piraeus, lies on the Saronic Gulf
  • Actress Melina Mercouri ran unsuccessfully for mayor of this foreign city, a post her Grandpa held for 30 years
  • City-state ruled by Pericles
  • Isocrates didn't teach Iplato but did teach Timotheus, a great general for this city-state
  • Piraeus is the port for this capital city
  • In 490 B.C. Miltiades' runner pouts & says he's only going to run 1 mile & walk the other 24 from Marathon to here
  • This capital lies on the Attica Plain surrounded by mountains including Parnes & Hymettus
  • In August 2004, the shot put competition was held not in this main host city but at Olympia
  • In 413 B.C. a Corinth/Syracuse fleet defeated this city's navy, & so left all the Greeks vulnerable
  • Down in Plaka listening to bouzouki music
  • In 404 B.C., this city surrendered, ending the 27-year-long Peloponnesian War
  • Melina Mercouri
  • When this city-state's leader died around 560 B.C., it was Solon, it's been good ta know ya
  • For a great view of this capital city, climb to the top of Lykavittos Hill, or take the funicular from Kolonaki
  • In "Paradise Regained", Milton called this European capital the "Mother of arts and eloquence"
  • A Mediterranean capital:HASTEN
  • (Hi, I'm Misty May-Treanor. And I'm Kerri Walsh.)Kerri & I won the USA's first gold in women's beach volleyball at the 2004 Olympics held in this city--we didn't lose a single set
  • Kostas Karamanlis
  • The first known law against throwing your garbage in the street was issued around 500 B.C. in this Greek city
  • In his poem "Hellas", Shelley wrote, "Let there be light!" said Liberty; and this city "Arose!"
  • This capital's stadium was rebuilt of white marble for the Olympic Games of 1896
  • The 1st extensively recorded naval battle was in 480 B.C. at Salamis where this Greek city-state beat the Persians
  • The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates was convicted of corrupting the youth of this city
  • In 1962 Prince Juan Carlos married Princess Sophia in a Catholic & also in an Orthodox cathedral in this city
  • This European capital lies on a plain near the southern end of the Attic Peninsula
  • "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is set in this Mediterranean City that's in the title of another Shakespeare play
  • Of cities in titles of Shakespeare's plays, this Mediterranean capital has the highest population