and career. In 490 BC, Aeschylus and his brother Cynegeirus fought to defend Athens against ... century AD author Aelian, Aeschylus s younger brother Ameinias of Athens Ameinias helped acquit his ... of the Theatre of Dionysus in Athens , where many of Aeschylus s plays were performed. The roots of Greek ...About the ancient Greek playwright Infobox person name Aeschylus image Aischylos B ste.jpg caption Bust of Aeschylus br from the Capitoline Museums , Rome birth date c. 525 BC 524 BC birth place Eleusis ... Aeschylus lang grc , Aiskhulos c. 525 524 BC c. 456 455 BC was the first of the three ancient ... begins with his work ref R. Lattimore, Aeschylus I Oresteia , 4 ref and our understanding of earlier ... before Aeschylus, probably including Choerilus, Phrynichus and Pratinas. Traditionally ... in Athens in the late 530s BC, but that might simply reflect an absence of records. Major innovations in dramatic form, credited to Aeschylus by Aristotle and the anonymous source The Life of Aeschylus ... about that period. So important was the war to Aeschylus and the Greeks that, upon his death, around ... presented evil in such stark and tragic terms ref R. P. Winnington Ingram, Aeschylus , 290, 295 ref ... S. Sa d, Aeschylean Tragedy , 227 ref Life There are no reliable sources for the life of Aeschylus ... northwest of Athens , which is nestled in the fertile valleys of western Attica , ref name S33 harvnb .... ref name Bates As soon as he woke from the dream, the young Aeschylus began writing a tragedy ... name F241 harvnb Freeman 1999 p 241 ref In 510 BC, Cleomenes I Aeschylus was 15 at the time expelled the sons of Peisistratus from Athens, and Cleisthenes came to power. His reforms included a system ... of the 6th century, Aeschylus and his family were living in the deme of Eleusina . ref name Kopff ... Kopff 1997 pp.1 472 In 480, Aeschylus was called into military service again, this time against ... of Plataea in 479. ref name S33 Ion of Chios was a witness for Aeschylus s war record and his ... more details
Several people or things bear the name AeschylusAeschylus , Athenian playwright of the 5th century BC, best known for the Oresteia trilogy Aeschylus of Athens , King of Athens from 778 755 BC Aeschylus of Alexandria , epic poet in the 2nd century Aeschylus of Cnidus , contemporary of Cicero, and one of the most celebrated rhetoricians in Asia Minor Aeschylus of Rhodes , governor of that city after its conquest by Alexander the Great 2876 Aeschylus , asteroid named after the playwright disambig DEFAULTSORT Aeschylus ... more details
2876 Aeschylus is a small asteroid belt main belt asteroid , which was discovered at Palomar Observatory by Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels on 24 September 1960. ref http ssd.jpl.nasa.gov sbdb.cgi?sstr 2876 Small Body Database Browser at Jet Propulsion Laboratory ref It is named after Aeschylus , the ancient Greece ancient Greek tragedy tragic dramatist . Notes references beltasteroid stub MinorPlanets Navigator 2875 Lagerkvist 2877 Likhachev MinorPlanets Footer DEFAULTSORT Aeschylus Category Main Belt asteroids Aeschylus Category Asteroids named for people Category Discoveries by Cornelis Johannes van Houten Category Discoveries by Ingrid van Houten Groeneveld Category Discoveries by Tom Gehrels Category Astronomical objects discovered in 1960 br 2876 Aesc hulos de 2876 Aeschylus es 2876 Esquilo eo 2876 Es ilo fa it 2876 Aeschylus la 2876 Aeschylus hu 2876 Aeschylus pl 2876 Aeschylus pt 2876 Aeschylus sk 2876 Aeschylus sr 2876 Aeschylus uk 2876 vi 2876 Aeschylus yo 2876 Aeschylus ... more details
property within the family. ref name thomson cite book title Aeschylus and Athens author George Derwent ... Aeschylus Supplices , Play and Trilogy . Cambridge, 1969. Johansen, H.F. and Whittle, E.W. Aeschylus ... a aeschylus suppliants full text Walter Headlam and C. E. S. Headlam, 1909 prose Herbert Weir Smyth ... adaptation of this play is Charles L. Mee Charles Mee s Big Love Aeschylus Plays DEFAULTSORT Suppliants Category Plays by Aeschylus Category Mythology of Argos bg de Die Schutzflehenden ... more details
italic title Taxobox name Senegal Blue Policeman image image caption regnum Animal ia phylum Arthropod a classis Insect a ordo Lepidoptera familia Hesperiidae genus Coeliades species C. aeschylus binomial Coeliades aeschylus binomial authority Pl tz, 1884 ref Ismene aeschylus Pl tz, 1884. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 45 65 51 66 . ref ref http www.nic.funet.fi pub sci bio life insecta lepidoptera ditrysia hesperioidea hesperiidae coeliadinae coeliades index.html Coeliades , Site of Markku Savela ref synonyms Ismene aeschylus small Pl tz, 1884 small The Senegal Blue Policeman Coeliades aeschylus is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found in Senegal , Gambia , Guinea Bissau , Mali , Guinea , Burkina Faso , and Sierra Leone north . ref Williams, Mark 2008 Butterflies and Skippers of the Afrotropical Region. An Encyclopedia. Seventh Edition. File 0. ref The habitat consists of the Guinea savanna zone. The larvae feed on Acridocarpus smeathmanni . References Reflist Category Animals described in 1884 Category Coeliadinae Hesperiidae stub ... more details
for others with this name Aeschylus disambiguation Aeschylus ancient Greek Gr. lang grc of Alexandria was an epic poetry epic poet who must have lived before the end of the 2nd century, and whom Athenaeus calls a well informed man. One of his poems bore the title Amphitryon , and another Messeniaca. A fragment of the former is preserved in Athenaeus. ref Athenaeus , xiii. p. 599 ref According to Zenobius , ref Zenobius , v. 85 ref he had also written a work on proverb s. ref Citation last Schmitz first Leonhard author link contribution Aeschylus 2 editor last Smith editor first William title Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology volume 1 pages 44 publisher place year 1867 contribution url http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 0053.html ref References reflist Poet stub Ancient Greece bio stub SmithDGRBM Category Roman era Alexandrians Category Ancient Greek epic poets Category Ancient Greek grammarians Category 2nd century poets ... more details
for others with this name Aeschylus disambiguation Aeschylus ancient Greek Gr. lang grc of Rhodes was appointed by Alexander the Great one of the inspectors of the governors of that country after its conquest in 332 BC . ref Arrian , Anabasis Alexandri iii. 5 comp. Curt. iv. 8 ref He is not spoken of again until 319 BC , when he is mentioned as conveying in four ships six hundred Talent measurement talents of silver from Cilicia to Macedon ia, which were detained at Ephesus by Antigonus , in order to pay his foreign mercenaries. ref Diodorus Siculus , xviii. 52 ref ref Citation last Smith first William author link William Smith lexicographer contribution Aeschylus 4 editor last Smith editor first William title Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology volume 1 pages 44 publisher place year 1867 contribution url http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 0053.html ref References reflist SmithDGRBM Category Generals of Alexander the Great Category Ancient Rhodian generals Category Ancient Greeks in Macedon Category 4th century BC Greek people AncientGreece bio stub la Aeschylus Rhodius ... more details
About the capital of Greece pp move indef Infobox Greek Dimos name Athens name local br Ath na image map 2011 Dimos Athineon.png image skyline Athens Montage 2.jpg imagesize 300 caption skyline From upper left the Acropolis of Athens Acropolis , the Hellenic Parliament , the Zappeion , the Acropolis Museum , Monastiraki Monastiraki Square , Athens view towards the sea. city flag Flag of Athens.JPG city seal Athens seal.png lat deg 37 lat min 58 lon deg 23 lon min 43 periph Attica region Attica periphunit Central Athens regional unit Central Athens pop municipality 655780 area municipality ..., Zxx, Ixx excluding ZAx and INx website http www.cityofathens.gr www.cityofathens.gr Athens IPAc en ... Longman location Harlow, England year 1990 isbn 0582053838 page 48 entry Athens ref lang ell ... city capital and largest city of Greece . Athens dominates the Attica region Attica region and is one ... spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful Polis city state . A centre for the arts ... of the Archaeological Sites of Athens work Hellenic Ministry of Culture url http www.yppo.gr ... Athens title Athens quote Ancient Greek Athenai, historic city and capital of Greece. Many of classical ... Archived 2009 10 31. ref Today a cosmopolitan metropolis, modern Athens is central to economic, financial, industrial, political and cultural life in Greece. In 2008, Athens was ranked the world ... study. The city of Athens has a population of 655,780 ref name population Hellenic Statistical Authority ... name Athens view cite web url http www.aviewoncities.com athens athensfacts.htm?tab population title Athens Facts & Figures first last Athens Facts work aviewoncities.com year 2011 last update quote ... of Athens Greater Athens and Greater Piraeus extends beyond the administrative municipal city limits ... abbr on . ref name area According to Eurostat , the Athens Larger Urban Zones Larger Urban Zone LUZ ... Union EU with a population of 4,013,368 in 2004 . Athens is also the southernmost capital on the European ... more details
Other people2 Philinus disambiguation File 47 Sto of Attalus Museum Ostracism against Philinos 417 BC Photo by Giovanni Dall Orto, Nov 9 2009.jpg thumb right 250px Ostracon against Philinus, 417 VBC. Philinus lang el lived during the 4th century BC was an Athens Athenian orator , a contemporary of Demosthenes and Lycurgus of Athens Lycurgus . He is mentioned by Demosthenes in his oration against Meidias r dem , who calls him the son of Nicostratus, and says that he was trierarch with him. Harpocration mentions three orations of Philinus. These are Against the statues for Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides , which was against a proposition of Lycurgus that statues should be erected to those poets r harp Against Dorotheus , which was ascribed likewise to Hyperides r harp Judiciary litigation of the Croconidae against Coeronidas , which was ascribed by others to Lycurgus. r harp ath 10 An ancient grammarian, quoted by Clement of Alexandria r clem 6 , says that Philinus borrowed from Demosthenes. Notes reflist refs ref name dem Demosthenes, Speeches , Against Midias , http www.perseus.tufts.edu cgi bin ptext?lookup Dem. 21 161 161 . ref ref name harp Harpocration, Lexicon of the Ten Orators , s.v. theorika . ref ref name harp Ibid., s.v. epi korres . ref ref name harp ath 10 Harpocration, s.v. koironidai Athenaeus , Deipnosophistae , http digicoll.library.wisc.edu cgi bin Literature Literature idx?type turn&entity Literature000801880152&q1 philinus&pview hide x. 25 . ref ref name clem 6 Clement, Stromata , http www.ccel.org ccel schaff anf02 png 0491 485.htm vi. 2 . ref References Ibid date June 2010 William Smith lexicographer Smith, William editor Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 2601.html Philinus 2 , Boston , 1867 SmithDGRBM Ancient Athenian statesmen DEFAULTSORT Philinus Of Athens Category Ancient Athenians Category 4th century BC Greek people ca Fil d Atenes ... more details
New Athens is the name of several towns in the United States New Athens, Illinois New Athens, Ohio geodis ca New Athens de New Athens it New Athens nl New Athens pl New Athens pt New Athens vo New Athens ... more details
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cultural and intellectual history lived in Athens during this period the dramatists Aeschylus ...Infobox Former Country native name lang grc conventional long name Athens common name Athens continent ..., situation in 431 BC , before the Peloponnesian War . capital Athens latd 37 latm 58 latNS N longd ... Ecclesia ancient Athens Ecclesia stat year1 5th Century BC sup 1 sup stat area1 stat pop1 250000 ... 03.shtml BBC History The city of Athens during the classical period of Ancient Greece 508 BC 508 322 BC ref Democracy and knowledge innovation and learning in classical Athens By Josiah Ober http books.google.com books?id nQVeaO4vJZoC&pg PA40&dq 508 322 BC Classical Athens v onepage&q 508 20322 ... as the Age of Pericles . In the Classical Greece classical period , Athens was a center for the arts ... 1997 01 16 accessdate 2007 03 28 Dead link date October 2010 bot H3llBot ref Athens was also the birthplace ... query?id 1257008284000993 Archived 2009 10 31. ref History main History of Athens Rise to power ... , Cleisthenes , then took charge and established democracy in Athens . The reforms of Cleisthenes ... which governed Athens on a day to day basis. The public opinion of voters could be influenced ... 1993 publisher Levante Editori location Bari ref The Ecclesia ancient Athens Assembly or Ecclesia ... thumb Early Athenian coin, 5th century BCE. British Museum . Prior to the rise of Athens, Sparta ... an hegemony . In 499 BC Athens sent troops to aid the Ionia n Greeks of Asia Minor , who were rebelling ... of operations, and entered southern Greece. This forced the Athenians to evacuate Athens ... defeated. Instead, the Persians were routed. Sparta s hegemony was passing to Athens, and it was Athens ... , architecture , sculpture , history and literature . He fostered arts and literature and gave to Athens ... Age of Athens. During the time of the ascendancy of Ephialtes as leader of the democratic ... of Athens modern National Academy in Athens, with Apollo and Athena on their columns, and Socrates ... more details
File Akropolis by Leo von Klenze.jpg 300 px right thumb The Acropolis of Athens by Leo von Klenze Athens ... 7000 years. Situated in southern Europe , Athens became the leading city of Ancient Greece in the first ... decline under the rule of the Ottoman Empire , Athens re emerged in the 19th century as the capital ... of Athens , connected to the name of its patron goddess Athena , originates from an earlier, Pre ... how Athens acquired this name through the legendary contest between Poseidon and Athena was described ... File Environs of Athens.jpg thumb Map of the Environs of Ancient Athens. The site on which Athens stands ... of Athens Acropolis high city , around the end of the fourth millennium BC or a little later ... , to the north Mount Pentelicus . Ancient Athens, in the first millennium BC, occupied a very small area compared to the sprawling metropolis of modern Athens. The ancient walled city encompassed ... religious sites in ancient Athens was the Temple of Athena, known today as the Parthenon , which ... sites, the Temple of Hephaestus which is still largely intact and the Temple of Olympian Zeus Athens ... for the right to reside in Athens, numbered a further 70,000, whilst Slavery slaves were estimated ... Parthenos Altemps Inv8622.jpg thumb The Greek goddess Athena. Athens has been inhabited from Neolithic .... ref name Iakovides, S 1962 Iakovides, S. 1962. E mykena ke akropolis ton Athenon . Athens. ref On the summit ... . Unlike other Mycenaean centers, such as Mycenae and Pylos , we do not know whether Athens suffered ... always maintained that they were pure Ionia ns with no Dorian element. However, Athens, like ... that from 900 BC onwards Athens was one of the leading centres of trade and prosperity in the region ... over inland rivals such as Thebes Greece Thebes and Sparta . According to legend, Athens was formerly ruled by kings see Kings of Athens , a situation which may have continued up until the 9th century ... pages 228 229 isbn 0674034503 ref During this period, Athens succeeded in bringing the other towns of Attica ... more details
wiktionary AthensAthens is the capital city of Greece. Classical Athens , the city in Classical Antiquity History of AthensAthens may also refer to Athens access and identity management , an access and identity management service the Athens meteorite of 1933, which fell in Alabama, United States see Meteorite falls The ATHENS Programme , an exchange network of European higher education institutions in engineering, coordinated by ParisTech The Athens typeface , one of the original bitmap typefaces for the Apple Macintosh computer Placename In Canada Athens, Ontario In the United States Athens, Alabama Athens, Arkansas Athens, California Athens, Georgia Athens, Illinois Athens, Indiana Athens, Kentucky Athens, Louisiana Athens, Maine Athens, Michigan Athens, Mississippi Athens, New York Athens town , New York Athens village , New York Athens, Ohio , a town Athens County, Ohio Athens, Pennsylvania , a borough Athens, Tennessee Athens, Texas Athens, Vermont Athens, West Virginia Athens, Wisconsin On the Black Sea Pontic Athens , a city mentioned in the 2nd century Periplus Ponti Euxini which may have been a colony of the Greek city See also Athens Other locations nicknamed Athens Other locations nicknamed Athens Athen disambiguation Atena disambiguation Athena disambiguation Athene disambiguation Altena disambiguation Athens Township disambiguation Afini disambig geo af Athena dubbelsinnig bg bs Atina vor cy Athens el es Atenas desambiguaci n fa hr Atena id Athena it Atene disambigua ko la Athenae discretiva mk nl Athene pl Ateny ujednoznacznienie ro Atena dezambiguizare ru sh Atena razvrstavanje simple Athens disambiguation sr tl Athina uk vo Atina Telpl nov ... more details
Battle of Athens may refer to in the US Battle of Athens 1861 , American Civil War battle in Northeast Missouri Battle of Athens 1864 , American Civil War battle in Northern Alabama Battle of Athens 1946 or the McMinn County War in Tennessee in 1946 Athens Greece Battle of Athens 1941 , a WWII air battle, part of the Battle of Greece. disambig ... more details
Athens Airport may refer to Athens International Airport in Athens, Greece IATA ATH, ICAO LGAV Athens Ben Epps Airport in Athens, Georgia, United States FAA IATA AHN Athens Municipal Airport in Athens, Texas, United States FAA F44 Ellinikon International Airport , the old airport for Athens, Greece airport disambiguation it Aeroporto di Atene disambigua ... more details
The Athens Open may refer to The ATP Athens Open , a men s tennis tournament held from 1986 to 1994 The WTA Athens Open , a women s tennis tournament held from 1986 to 1990. See also Athens Trophy disambiguation ... more details
coord 37 59 47.27 N 23 43 21.06 E display title Attiki is a neighborhood of Athens , Greece and home of Attiki station . Athens Category Neighbourhoods in Athens greece geo stub ... more details
unreferenced date June 2009 Polygono is a neighborhood of Athens , Greece . Athens coord missing Greece Category Neighbourhoods in Athens greece geo stub el ru uk ... more details
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Makrygianni lang el IPA el makri ani pron is a neighborhood of Athens , Greece . Athens coord missing Greece Category Neighbourhoods in Athens greece geo stub el no Makrygianni ru uk ... more details
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unreferenced date June 2009 Neapoli is a neighborhood of Athens , Greece . It is located at the centre of Athens, close to Exarcheia and Kolonaki Athens coord missing Greece Category Neighbourhoods in Athens greece geo stub el ru uk ... more details
even as early as the reign of Philip II of Macedon Philip , the people of Athens clung to him, and boldly ... elien 13.htm xiii. 24 ref another ordained that bronze statues should be erected to Aeschylus , Sophocles ... by Philinus of Athens Philinus ref name harp Harpocration , Lexicon of the Ten Orators , s.v. ... of Dionysus at Athens , 1946. Notes Reflist External links Lycurgus, http www.perseus.tufts.edu cgi ... more details
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