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Athens

noun

The capital and largest city of Greece; named after Athena (its patron goddess). Synonyms: Athinai, capital of Greece, Greek capital.

A town in southeast Ohio.

A university town in northeast Georgia.

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... which befel the Lacedaemonians was the affair of Sphacteria. It is remarkable that on this occasion they were vanquished by men who made a trade of war. The force which Cleon carried out with him from Athens to the Bay of Pyles, and to which the event of the conflict is to be chiefly ascribed, consisted entirely of mercenaries, archers from Scythia and light infantry from Thrace. The victory gained by the Lacedaemonians over a great confederate army at Tegea retrieved that military reputation which ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 5 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... had a high school course, but the most famous universities do not always succeed in making men and women. When I long to go abroad and study, I always remember that there were three great schools in Athens and two in Jerusalem, but the Teacher of all teachers came out of Nazareth, a little village hidden away from ...

— Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... country. And though as a rule the country boy is disappointed, he of the town, when once he has tasted the true joys of the country and seen Nature at her best, is never satiated. But that love of the novel and the fresh is in us all—the desire for that which in Saint Paul's days the men of Athens longed for: ...

— The Ocean Cat's Paw - The Story of a Strange Cruise • George Manville Fenn

... to him to tell them what romanticism means. For two years Dupuis and his friend Cotonet had supposed that the term applied only to the theater, and signified the disregard of the unities. "Shakspere, for example makes people travel from Rome to London, and from Athens to Alexandria in a quarter of an hour. His heroes live ten or twenty years between two acts. His heroines, angels of virtue during a whole scene, have only to pass into the coulisses, to reappear as wives, adulteresses, widows, and grandmothers. ...

— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers

... court are delightfully accentuated in the diaper pattern decorating the rectangular wall spaces of the main portion of the towers. The upper design, repeated in each of the four corners, is modeled after the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens. The winged figure, "The Fairy," lightly and gracefully poised upon the topmost pinnacle, is ...

— The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition • Louis Christian Mullgardt

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