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  • He demanded, as payment for his son, that the Athenian king send seven youths and seven maids to feed the monster, or else Crete's mighty navy would bring war.†   (source)
  • You see, Sophocles is writing this not only at the end of his life but at the end of the fifth century B.c., which is to say at the end of the period of Athenian greatness.†   (source)
  • My medium-length hair was dark and curly—a style I had rocked in Athenian times, and again in the 1970s.†   (source)
  • It was here that the Athenian high court of justice passed judgment in murder trials.†   (source)
  • He ushered the NYPD into what one senior police official later called "our Athenian period," in which new ideas were given weight over calcified practices.†   (source)
  • The Athenians were brilliant philosophers and abounded in empathy that made them wonderful writers and philosophers, yet they did not even debate their reliance on slavery.†   (source)
  • "At Seattle's Town Hall, which sits atop the city's First Hill neighborhood like an Athenian temple, Mortenson arrived fifteen minutes late, wearing a shalwar kamiz.†   (source)
  • Athenians gave Draco the power to reform its government and laws.†   (source)
  • Piety had, for Athenians, a broad meaning.†   (source)
  • Herodotus, in the Persian War, tells a story of how Croesus, the richest and most-favored king of his time, asked Solon the Athenian a leading question.†   (source)
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  • You helped the Athenian kill my Minotaur, Daedalus.†   (source)
  • But Paul clearly succeeds in getting the Athenians to listen to him.†   (source)
  • An Athenian is said to have asked the oracle at Delphi who the wisest man in Athens was.†   (source)
  • This idea, you may recall, was also central for the great Athenian philosophers.†   (source)
  • This was the period when Socrates walked through the streets and squares talking with the Athenians.†   (source)
  • My people were the original Athenians—the gemini.†   (source)
  • Alcibiades, perhaps Socrates' favorite Athenian politician, masterminded the first overthrow.†   (source)
  • The original Athenians, the gemini, were driven underground and forgotten.†   (source)
  • The only coin she had was her silver Athenian drachma, which didn't make a great tribute.†   (source)
  • There are no records suggesting that Athenian practice allowed defendants to speak after sentencing.†   (source)
  • In Greek it stands for Of The Athenians …. or you could read it as the children of Athena.†   (source)
  • The horrors brought on by the Thirty Tyrants caused Athenians to look at Socrates in a new light.†   (source)
  • Under Athenian law, execution was accomplished by drinking a cup of poisoned hemlock.†   (source)
  • When Sophocles is a very old man, he finally writes the middle third of his Theban trilogy of plays, Oedipus at Colonus (406 B.c.), in which the old and frail Oedipus arrives at Colonus and receives the protection of the Athenian king, Theseus.†   (source)
  • In this, he is quoting St. Paul's speech to the Athenians on the Areopagos hill: 'In him we live and move and have our being.'†   (source)
  • For the Athenians, it was first and foremost essential to master the art of rhetoric, which means saying things in a convincing manner.†   (source)
  • After a while he went down through the entrance and climbed to the Areopagos hill where Paul had addressed the Athenians.†   (source)
  • But before we meet Socrates, let us hear a little about the so-called Sophists, who dominated the Athenian scene at the time of Socrates.†   (source)
  • A Jew suddenly appears in the Athenian marketplace and starts talking about a savior who was hung on a cross and later rose from the grave.†   (source)
  • One of her father's pet ideas had been to let all the United Nations countries collaborate in reconstructing an exact copy of the Athenian square.†   (source)
  • Many hundreds of years later, St. Paul the Apostle stood here and preached about Jesus and Christianity to the Athenians.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, the three great Athenian philosophers were a source of inspiration to a number of philosophic trends which I shall briefly describe in a moment.†   (source)
  • It's an Athenian coin."†   (source)
  • However, the Athenians decided they would lose more partisans than Sparta, giving the latter a majority.†   (source)
  • Not only does the Bible advocate stoning girls to death when they fail to bleed on their wedding sheets, but Solon, the great lawgiver of ancient Athens, prescribed that no Athenian could be sold into slavery save a woman who lost her virginity before marriage.†   (source)
  • According to Annabeth, the hill they stood on had once been Sparta's acropolis—its highest point and main fortress—but it was nothing like the massive Athenian acropolis Piper had seen in her dreams.†   (source)
  • However, after an ally was defeated at sea by the Athenians, Athens demanded that Lysander command the combined fleets.†   (source)
  • As she watched, it changed from a New York subway token to an ancient silver drachma, the kind used by Athenians.†   (source)
  • Even if every Athenian citizen had been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.†   (source)
  • It's sort of the Athenian motto."†   (source)
  • The Athenians would have escaped bitter pain if their government had such a safeguard against the tyranny of their own passions.†   (source)
  • The Achaeans were weakened by internal dissensions and by the revolt of one of its members, Messene, but they joined the Aetolians and Athenians in opposition.†   (source)
  • Striking at the heart of Athenian democracy, he contemptuously criticized the right of every citizen to speak in the Athenian assembly.†   (source)
  • Critias, first among an oligarchy known as the "Thirty Tyrants," led the second bloody revolt against the restored Athenian democracy in 404.†   (source)
  • He also started the Peloponnesian war—which ruined the Athenian commonwealth—for one or more reasons: because he was annoyed with the Megarensians (another nation of Greece), to avoid prosecution as a coconspirator in the theft of a statue of Phidias, and/or to get rid of accusations of using state funds to purchase popularity.†   (source)
  • More importantly, he contends, he has battled for decades to save the souls of Athenians--pointing them in the direction of an examined, ethical life.†   (source)
  • Socrates at the time of Clouds must have been perceived more as a harmless town character than as a serious threat to Athenian values and democracy.†   (source)
  • I. F. Stone argues that "Athenians were accustomed to hearing the gods treated disrespectfully in both the comic and tragic theatre."†   (source)
  • In the Meno, Plato reports that Socrates' argument that the great statesmen of Athenian history have nothing to offer in terms of an understanding of virtue enrages Anytus.†   (source)
  • What is strikingly absent from the defense of Socrates, if Plato's and Xenophon's accounts are to be believed, is the plea for mercy typically made to Athenian juries.†   (source)
  • If Plato's account is accurate, the jury knew that the only way to stop Socrates from lecturing about the moral weaknesses of Athenians was to kill him.†   (source)
  • The oligarchy confiscated the estates of Athenian aristocrats, banished 5,000 women, children, and slaves, and summarily executed about 1,500 of Athen's most prominent democrats.†   (source)
  • At the same time, Colaiaco recognizes that because of the association of Socrates with Critias "the prosecution could expect any Athenian jury to harbor hostile feelings toward the city's gadfly.†   (source)
  • Athenians undoubtedly considered the teachings of Socrates--especially his expressions of disdain for the established constitution--partially responsible for the resulting death and suffering.†   (source)
  • What could Socrates have said or done than prompted a jury of 500 Athenians to send him to his death just a few years before he would have died naturally?†   (source)
  • Growing to adulthood in this bastion of liberalism and democracy, Socrates somehow developed a set of values and beliefs that would put him at odds with most of his fellow Athenians.†   (source)
  • He may have stirred additional resentment by offering arguments against the collective, ritualistic view of religion shared by most Athenians or by contending that gods could not, as Athenians believed, behave immorally or whimsically.†   (source)
  • The Archon determined--after listening to Socrates and Meletus (and perhaps the other two accusers, Anytus and Lycon)--that the lawsuit was permissible under Athenian law, set a date for the "preliminary hearing" (anakrisis), and posted a public notice at the Royal Stoa.†   (source)
  • Sparta--the model of a closed society--and Athens were enemies: the remark suggests Socrates' teaching may have started to be seen as subversive by 417 B.C.E. The standing of Socrates among his fellow citizens suffered mightily during two periods in which Athenian democracy was temporarily overthrown, one four-month period in 411-410 and another slightly longer period in 404-403.†   (source)
  • Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves.†   (source)
  • But he seems to have offered, instead, the substitute of the Athenian youths and maidens.†   (source)
  • And, gazing in the direction of the bay, Dr. Rieux called to mind the plaguefires of which Lucretius tells, which the Athenians kindled on the seashore.†   (source)
  • The poor poet has not in these days, nor has had for two hundred years, a dog's chance …. a poor child in England has little more hope than had the son of an Athenian slave to be emancipated into that intellectual freedom of which great writings are born.†   (source)
  • Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos, fell in love with the handsome Theseus the moment she saw him disembark from the boat that had brought the pitiful group of Athenian youths and maidens for the Minotaur.†   (source)
  • Believe me—and I have spent a great part of ten years in watching some three hundred and twenty elementary schools, we may prate of democracy, but actually, a poor child in England has little more hope than had the son of an Athenian slave to be emancipated into that intellectual freedom of which great writings are born.†   (source)
  • Without being unduly rash we may surmise that the tribute of seven youths and seven maidens whom the Athenians were bound to send to Minos every eight years had some connexion with the renewal of the king's power for another octennial eycle.†   (source)
  • Why should these words, Athenian, Roman, Asia, and England, so tingle in the ear?†   (source)
  • To please you, O Athenians! exclaimed Alexander.†   (source)
  • Here an Athenian, there a red-haired savage from Hibernia, yonder blue-eyed giants of the Cimbri.†   (source)
  • She is Athenian in the matter of beauty, and Roman in her greatness.†   (source)
  • I am Gaspar, son of Cleanthes the Athenian.†   (source)
  • The green goes to number four on the right; the Athenian is there.†   (source)
  • A four of Cleanthes the Athenian—three gray, one bay; winners at the Isthmian last year.†   (source)
  • The old "mansions" along Ninth Street, S. E., like aged dandies in filthy linen; wooden castles turned into boarding-houses, with muddy walks and rusty hedges, jostled by fast-intruding garages, cheap apartment-houses, and fruit-stands conducted by bland, sleek Athenians.†   (source)
  • Behrens had no choice but to expel all three—the Athenian, Fraulein Nolting, and her girlfriend, who in her passionate rage had paid little attention to her own honor—and had just been discussing the whole unsavory affair with his assistant, who, by the way, had been treating both girls privately.†   (source)
  • I recognise, moreover, that our ineffable and Athenian—oh, how infinitely Athenian—Republic is capable of honouring, in the person of that obscurantist old she-Capet, the first of our chiefs of police.†   (source)
  • The pageantry of his disillusion took shape in a world-old procession of Prophets, Athenians, Martyrs, Saints, Scientists, Don Juans, Jesuits, Puritans, Fausts, Poets, Pacifists; like costumed alumni at a college reunion they streamed before him as their dreams, personalities, and creeds had in turn thrown colored lights on his soul; each had tried to express the glory of life and the tremendous significance of man; each had boasted of synchronizing what had gone before into his own…†   (source)
  • They were the work of Athenian stone masons of the fourth and fifth centuries before Christ, and they were very simple, work of no great talent but with the exquisite spirit of Athens upon them; time had mellowed the marble to the colour of honey, so that unconsciously one thought of the bees of Hymettus, and softened their outlines.†   (source)
  • I scrutinized the formation of the chin--and here, too, I found the gentleness of breadth, the softness and the majesty, the fullness and the spirituality, of the Greek--the contour which the god Apollo revealed but in a dream, to Cleomenes, the son of the Athenian.†   (source)
  • …to the question of gambling, no circumstances which force us to tolerate it lest its suppression lead to worse things, no consensus of opinion among responsible classes, such as magistrates and military commanders, that it is a necessity, no Athenian records of gambling made splendid by the talents of its professors, no contention that instead of violating morals it only violates a legal institution which is in many respects oppressive and unnatural, no possible plea that the instinct…†   (source)
  • "This morning Liza came to see me—they're not afraid to call on me, in spite of the Countess Lidia Ivanovna," she put in—"and she told me about your Athenian evening.†   (source)
  • And what of the Athenian?†   (source)
  • He was young — perhaps from twenty-eight to thirty — tall, slender; his face riveted the eye; it was like a Greek face, very pure in outline: quite a straight, classic nose; quite an Athenian mouth and chin.†   (source)
  • I confess to you that she acts on my nerves and that I feel about her a good deal as that intensely human Athenian felt about Aristides the Just.†   (source)
  • The Athenians, those Parisians of days gone by, slew Phocion, as we might say Coligny, and fawned upon tyrants to such an extent that Anacephorus said of Pisistratus: "His urine attracts the bees."†   (source)
  • The Parisian is to the Frenchman what the Athenian was to the Greek: no one sleeps more soundly than he, no one is more frankly frivolous and lazy than he, no one can better assume the air of forgetfulness; let him not be trusted nevertheless; he is ready for any sort of cool deed; but when there is glory at the end of it, he is worthy of admiration in every sort of fury.†   (source)
  • On their side, the Greeks, though very numerous, were divided between the Corinthian and the Athenian, leaving but a scant showing of green and yellow.†   (source)
  • Whatever the form, it signified merely the wearer's partiality; thus, green published a friend of Cleanthes the Athenian, and black an adherent of the Byzantine.†   (source)
  • As Messala turned in, the bronze lion's head at the end of his axle caught the fore-leg of the Athenian's right-hand trace-mate, flinging the brute over against its yoke-fellow.†   (source)
  • So, while the spectators were shivering at the Athenian's mishap, and the Sidonian, Byzantine, and Corinthian were striving, with such skill as they possessed, to avoid involvement in the ruin, Ben-Hur swept around and took the course neck and neck with Messala, though on the outside.†   (source)
  • Messala having passed, the Corinthian was the only contestant on the Athenian's right, and to that side the latter tried to turn his broken four; and then; as ill-fortune would have it, the wheel of the Byzantine, who was next on the left, struck the tail-piece of his chariot, knocking his feet from under him.†   (source)
  • Theseus could not have shown his ability had he not found the Athenians dispersed.†   (source)
  • Iasos was a captain of Athenians and son, so called, of Sphelos Boukolides.†   (source)
  • Nay, Athenians, the very opposite is the truth.†   (source)
  • But the simple truth is, O Athenians, that I have nothing to do with physical speculations.†   (source)
  • Great Aias led twelve ships from S alarms r and beached them where Athenians formed for battle.†   (source)
  • Stikhios and Menestheus, in command of the Athenians, bore Amphimakhos amid the Akhaians.†   (source)
  • And I swear to you, Athenians, by the dog I swear!†   (source)
  • This is true, O Athenians, or, if not true, would be soon refuted.†   (source)
  • Well, Athenians, this and the like of this is all the defence which I have to offer.†   (source)
  • And if, as I said, it was necessary that the people of Israel should be captive so as to make manifest the ability of Moses; that the Persians should be oppressed by the Medes so as to discover the greatness of the soul of Cyrus; and that the Athenians should be dispersed to illustrate the capabilities of Theseus: then at the present time, in order to discover the virtue of an Italian spirit, it was necessary that Italy should be reduced to the extremity that she is now in, that she…†   (source)
  • should be dispersed to illustrate the capabilities of Theseus: then at the present time, in order to discover the virtue of an Italian spirit, it was necessary that Italy should be reduced to the extremity that she is now in, that she should be more enslaved than the Hebrews, more oppressed than the Persians, more scattered than the Athenians; without head, without order, beaten, despoiled, torn, overrun; and to have endured every kind of desolation.†   (source)
  • She placed him in her city, in her shrine, where he receives each year, with bulls and rams, the prayers of young Athenians.†   (source)
  • Next he found Menestheus, the good horse-handler, son of Peteos, waiting, surrounded by Athenians, good hands in battle.†   (source)
  • Here in chariots or on foot the Akhaians fought most bitterly: Boiotians, Ionians in long khitons, men of Lokris, men of Phthia, illustrious Epeioi fought off Hektor from the ships, but could not throw him back as he came on like flame, Athenians, picked men, were here, their chief Peteos' son, Menestheus, and his aides, Pheidas and Strikhios, rugged Bias.†   (source)
  • Then every Athenian improves and elevates them; all with the exception of myself; and I alone am their corrupter?†   (source)
  • It will be very clear to you, Athenians, as I was saying, that Meletus has no care at all, great or small, about the matter.†   (source)
  • And now, Athenians, I am not going to argue for my own sake, as you may think, but for yours, that you may not sin against the God by condemning me, who am his gift to you.†   (source)
  • I have told you already, Athenians, the whole truth about this matter: they like to hear the cross-examination of the pretenders to wisdom; there is amusement in it.†   (source)
  • I dare say, Athenians, that some one among you will reply, 'Yes, Socrates, but what is the origin of these accusations which are brought against you; there must have been something strange which you have been doing?†   (source)
  • How you, O Athenians, have been affected by my accusers, I cannot tell; but I know that they almost made me forget who I was--so persuasively did they speak; and yet they have hardly uttered a word of truth.†   (source)
  • Not much time will be gained, O Athenians, in return for the evil name which you will get from the detractors of the city, who will say that you killed Socrates, a wise man; for they will call me wise, even although I am not wise, when they want to reproach you.†   (source)
  • I have seen men of reputation, when they have been condemned, behaving in the strangest manner: they seemed to fancy that they were going to suffer something dreadful if they died, and that they could be immortal if you only allowed them to live; and I think that such are a dishonour to the state, and that any stranger coming in would have said of them that the most eminent men of Athens, to whom the Athenians themselves give honour and command, are no better than women.†   (source)
  • Now if there be such a person among you,--mind, I do not say that there is,--to him I may fairly reply: My friend, I am a man, and like other men, a creature of flesh and blood, and not 'of wood or stone,' as Homer says; and I have a family, yes, and sons, O Athenians, three in number, one almost a man, and two others who are still young; and yet I will not bring any of them hither in order to petition you for an acquittal.†   (source)
  • We are liege subjects of the catholic chivalry of Europe that foundered at Trafalgar and of the empire of the spirit, not an imperium, that went under with the Athenian fleets at Aegospotami.†   (source)
  • ] OBERON Stand close; this is the same Athenian.†   (source)
  • Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.†   (source)
  • There, gentle Hermia, may I marry thee; And to that place the sharp Athenian law Cannot pursue us.†   (source)
  • Did not you tell me I should know the man By the Athenian garments he had on?†   (source)
  • But hast thou yet latch'd the Athenian's eyes With the love-juice, as I did bid thee do?†   (source)
  • ] 'The battle with the Centaurs, to be sung By an Athenian eunuch to the harp.'†   (source)
  • Come, good Athenian.†   (source)
  • To sum up: I say that Athens is the school of Hellas, and that the individual Athenian in his own person seems to have the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with the utmost versatility and grace.†   (source)
  • And yet a man cannot say, the Soveraign People of Athens wanted right to banish them; or an Athenian the Libertie to Jest, or to be Just.†   (source)
  • And because the Athenians were taught, (to keep them from desire of changing their Government,) that they were Freemen, and all that lived under Monarchy were slaves; therefore Aristotle puts it down in his Politiques,(lib.†   (source)
  • And here is the proof: The Lacedaemonians come into Athenian territory not by themselves, but with their whole confederacy following; we go alone into a neighbor's country; and although our opponents are fighting for their homes and we on a foreign soil, we have seldom any difficulty in overcoming them.†   (source)
  • Their mutual jealousies, fears, hatreds, and injuries ended in the celebrated Peloponnesian war; which itself ended in the ruin and slavery of the Athenians who had begun it.†   (source)
  • The Athenians, and Romanes, were free; that is, free Common-wealths: not that any particular men had the Libertie to resist their own Representative; but that their Representative had the Libertie to resist, or invade other people.†   (source)
  • The Peloponnesian confederates, having suffered a severe defeat at sea from the Athenians, demanded Lysander, who had before served with success in that capacity, to command the combined fleets.†   (source)
  • The Achaeans, though weakened by internal dissensions and by the revolt of Messene, one of its members, being joined by the AEtolians and Athenians, erected the standard of opposition.†   (source)
  • Of The Schools Of Philosophy Amongst The Athenians After the Athenians by the overthrow of the Persian Armies, had gotten the Dominion of the Sea; and thereby, of all the Islands, and Maritime Cities of the Archipelago, as well of Asia as Europe; and were grown wealthy; they that had no employment, neither at home, nor abroad, had little else to employ themselves in, but either (as St. Luke says, Acts 17.†   (source)
  • …or times before, without seeing between the antecedent and subsequent Event, any dependance or connexion at all: And therefore from the like things past, they expect the like things to come; and hope for good or evill luck, superstitiously, from things that have no part at all in the causing of it: As the Athenians did for their war at Lepanto, demand another Phormio; the Pompeian faction for their warre in Afrique, another Scipio; and others have done in divers other occasions since.†   (source)
  • The Athenians, finding that the Lacedaemonians would lose fewer partisans by such a measure than themselves, and would become masters of the public deliberations, vigorously opposed and defeated the attempt.†   (source)
  • ] PUCK Through the forest have I gone, But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring love.†   (source)
  • …as an accomplice of a supposed theft of the statuary Phidias,3 or to get rid of the accusations prepared to be brought against him for dissipating the funds of the state in the purchase of popularity,4 or from a combination of all these causes, was the primitive author of that famous and fatal war, distinguished in the Grecian annals by the name of the PELOPONNESIAN war; which, after various vicissitudes, intermissions, and renewals, terminated in the ruin of the Athenian commonwealth.†   (source)
  • So the people of the Jewes were stirred up to reject God, and to call upon the Prophet Samuel, for a King after the manner of the Nations; So also the lesser Cities of Greece, were continually disturbed, with seditions of the Aristocraticall, and Democraticall factions; one part of almost every Common-wealth, desiring to imitate the Lacedaemonians; the other, the Athenians.†   (source)
  • Whence could it have proceeded, that the Athenians, a people who would not suffer an army to be commanded by fewer than ten generals, and who required no other proof of danger to their liberties than the illustrious merit of a fellow-citizen, should consider one illustrious citizen as a more eligible depositary of the fortunes of themselves and their posterity, than a select body of citizens, from whose common deliberations more wisdom, as well as more safety, might have been expected?†   (source)
  • BOTTOM Masters, I am to discourse wonders: but ask me not what; for if I tell you, I am not true Athenian.†   (source)
  • PUCK I took him sleeping,—that is finish'd too,— And the Athenian woman by his side; That, when he wak'd, of force she must be ey'd.†   (source)
  • Weeds of Athens he doth wear: This is he, my master said, Despised the Athenian maid; And here the maiden, sleeping sound, On the dank and dirty ground.†   (source)
  • And so far blameless proves my enterprise That I have 'nointed an Athenian's eyes: And so far am I glad it so did sort, As this their jangling I esteem a sport.†   (source)
  • THESEUS Go, Philostrate, Stir up the Athenian youth to merriments; Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth; Turn melancholy forth to funerals— The pale companion is not for our pomp.†   (source)
  • Take thou some of it, and seek through this grove: A sweet Athenian lady is in love With a disdainful youth: anoint his eyes; But do it when the next thing he espies May be the lady: thou shalt know the man By the Athenian garments he hath on.†   (source)
  • Near to her close and consecrated bower, While she was in her dull and sleeping hour, A crew of patches, rude mechanicals, That work for bread upon Athenian stalls, Were met together to rehearse a play Intended for great Theseus' nuptial day.†   (source)
  • And, gentle Puck, take this transformed scalp From off the head of this Athenian swain, That he awaking when the other do, May all to Athens back again repair, And think no more of this night's accidents But as the fierce vexation of a dream.†   (source)
  • LYSANDER My lord, I shall reply amazedly, Half 'sleep, half waking; but as yet, I swear, I cannot truly say how I came here: But, as I think,—for truly would I speak— And now I do bethink me, so it is,— I came with Hermia hither: our intent Was to be gone from Athens, where we might be, Without the peril of the Athenian law.†   (source)
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