Ancient Athens

ancient philosophical, research and educative center, founded by Plato in Athens

city-state in ancient Greece

thumb|250px|Pinakion|Pinakia, identification tablets (name, father's name, deme) used for tasks like [[jury selection, Museum at the Ancient Agora of Athens]] In Ancient Greece, a deme or ' (, plural: demoi''''', δῆμοι) was a suburb or a subdivision of Athens and other city-states. Demes as simple subdivisions of land in the countryside existed in the 6th century BC and earlier, but did not acquire particular significance until the reforms of Cleisthenes in 508 BC. In those reforms, enrollment in the citizen-lists of a deme became the requirement for citizenship; prior to that time, citizenshi

city wall in ancient Athens

lunisolar calendar

symbolic number notation used by the ancient Greeks

thumb|Phalerum Bay Phalerum or Phaleron ( '' ; (), ) was a port of Ancient Athens, 5 km southwest of the Acropolis of Athens, on a bay of the Saronic Gulf. The bay is also referred to as "Bay of Phalerum" ( ).''

thumb|200px|View of Kastella. thumb|200px|Mikrolimano

Euergetism (or evergetism, from the Greek , "do good deeds") was the ancient practice of high-status and wealthy individuals in society distributing part of their wealth to the community. This practice was also part of the patron-client relation system of Roman society. The term was coined by French historian André Boulanger and subsequently used in the works of Paul Veyne.

A bema is an elevated platform used as an orator's podium. The term can refer to the raised area in a sanctuary. In Jewish synagogues, where it is used for Torah reading during services, the term used is bima or bimah.

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Greek statue

thumb|The Delian League before the outbreak of the [[Peloponnesian War in 431 BC.]] Pentecontaetia (, "the period of fifty years") is the term used to refer to the period in Ancient Greek history between the defeat of the second Persian invasion of Greece at Plataea in 479 BC and the beginning of the Peloponnesian War in 431 BC. The term originated with a scholiast commenting on Thucydides, who used it in their description of the period. The Pentecontaetia was marked by the rise of Athens as the dominant state in the Greek world and by the rise of Athenian democracy, a period also known as Gol

The Mesogeia or Mesogaia (, "Midlands") is a geographical region of Attica in Greece.

Persian siege and destruction of Athens (480–479 BCE)

ancient road in Athens, Greece

place of refuge in antiquity

unit of mass

right|thumbnail|A section of the Gortyn law code inscription, from the 5th century BCE|300px|alt=Stone wall with inscription in Greek letters. An epikleros (; : epikleroi) was an heiress in ancient Athens and other ancient Greek city states, specifically a daughter of a man who had no sons. In Sparta, they were called patrouchoi (), as they were in Gortyn. Athenian women were not allowed to hold property in their own name; in order to keep her father's property in the family, an epikleros was required to marry her father's nearest male relative. Even if a woman was already married, evidence su

oath sworn by young men of Classical Athens, typically eighteen-year-old sons of Athenian citizens upon induction into the Ephebic College

ancient deme of Attica

Anaphlystus or Anaphlystos () was a coastal (paralia) deme of ancient Athens, belonging to the Antiochis phyle, on the west coast of Attica, opposite the island of Eleussa, and a little north of the promontory of Sunium, between that promontory and that of Astypalaea. It bordered on Aegilia to the west, to Atene in the south-east and to Amphitrope to the east. To the northwest, it was separated from Phrearrhioi by the Astike Hodos.