Athens

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

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.

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.

A quick look at what the Athenian areopagus was.

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

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

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

Glossary entry on Pericles Funeral Oration.

The social units early Athens was hierarchically organized into.

An etext of an early 20th century school history of ancient Athens.

Glossary entry on the Athenian parthenon.