Athens

Athens - The Ancient Polis of Athens
The ancient polis of Athens was the cultural center of ancient Greece and the birthplace of democracy.

Acropolis
An acropolis is the high point of a city where a shrine to a city's most important god might be placed. In Athens the acropolis was the site of the Parthenon to their patron goddess Athena.

Age of Pericles
he Age of Pericles refers to part of the Classical Age of Greece, when the dominant polis -- in terms of culture and politics -- was Athens, Greece.

Areopagus
A quick look at what the Athenian areopagus was.

Eponymous Heroes
The special Greek heroes who lent their names to the organization of Athens.

Map
Map of Athens, showing the long walls, Piraeus, and Acropolis.

Metic
Pericles is held responsible for an Athenian citizenship law that denied rights to children of metic mothers.

Pericles Funeral Oration
Glossary entry on Pericles Funeral Oration.

Social Order
The social units early Athens was hierarchically organized into.

A Day in Old Athens Greece, by William Stearns Davis
An etext of an early 20th century school history of ancient Athens.

Parthenon
Glossary entry on the Athenian parthenon.