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id: 26095
title: The Athenian Constitution
author: Aristotle
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  The elections to the various offices Solon enacted should be by lot, nine Archons; whereas in early times the Council of Areopagus summoned Council of Five Hundred, and others to the Assembly and the law-courts. Council, holding office for a year, consisting of men over thirty years law-courts if the Council declare the charge proved. point of fact the person on whom the lot falls holds the office even done by a jury in the law-courts appointed by lot, since the Council Council, to receive two obols a day from the state for their support. charge the Eleven bring the case before the law-courts; if the arbitrations to the persons belonging to that year, casting lots to Of the magistrates elected by lot, in former times some including the The juries for the law-courts are chosen by lot by the nine Archons, the law, the jurors receive their pay in the order assigned by the lot.


id: 1113
title: A Midsummer Night''s Dream
author: Shakespeare, William
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  THIS EBOOK WAS ONE OF PROJECT GUTENBERG''S EARLY FILES PRODUCED AT A TIME WHEN PROOFING METHODS AND TOOLS WERE NOT WELL DEVELOPED. IS AN IMPROVED EDITION OF THIS TITLE WHICH MAY BE VIEWED AS EBOOK (#1514) at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1514


id: 1132
title: The Life of Timon of Athens
author: Shakespeare, William
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  THIS EBOOK WAS ONE OF PROJECT GUTENBERG''S EARLY FILES PRODUCED AT A TIME WHEN PROOFING METHODS AND TOOLS WERE NOT WELL DEVELOPED. IS AN IMPROVED EDITION OF THIS TITLE WHICH MAY BE VIEWED AS EBOOK (#100) at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/100


id: 4716
title: A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
author: Davis, William Stearns
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  Athenian Pottery an Expression of the Greek Sense of Beauty . Attica in general; but what of the setting of the city of Athens of the old Athenian life in Zimmern''s "The Greek Commonwealth," p. Preëminently Athens may be called the "City of the Simple Life." great side of civilization which the city of Athens might develop the Hellene,--Old Age. Athenian women especially (though the men Slavery an Integral Part of Greek Life.--An Athenian lady cares The Schoolboy''s Pedagogue.--It is a great day for an Athenian in Athens) as possible, and must they not some day, as good citizens, By eighteen the young Athenian''s days of study will usually come The Commerce of Athens.--Part of Athenian wealth comes from the boys, there are three great public Gymnasia at Athens,--the a marked man around Athens or any other Greek city. The Acropolis of Athens.--Almost every Greek city has its own


id: 3013
title: The Birds
author: Aristophanes
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  Euelpides and Pisthetaerus, two old Athenians, Epops (the hoopoe), sometime called Tereus, and now King of the Birds, EUELPIDES This is, then, truly a running-bird.(1) Come, Trochilus, do us PISTHETAERUS Aye, indeed; ''tis a foreign bird too. PISTHETAERUS It was not the gods, but the birds, who were formerly the PISTHETAERUS First I advise that the birds gather together in one city PISTHETAERUS Why, the birds, by Zeus, will add three hundred years to f(1) Pisthetaerus and Euelpides now both return with wings. PISTHETAERUS Let us address our sacrifices and our prayers to the winged PISTHETAERUS Men now adore the birds as gods, and ''tis to them, by Zeus, PISTHETAERUS Will you stay with us and form a chorus of winged birds as PISTHETAERUS ''Tis I, but you must tell me for what purpose you want PISTHETAERUS ''Tis just my words that give you wings.


id: 3012
title: The Acharnians
author: Aristophanes
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  SCENE: The Athenian Ecclesia on the Pnyx; afterwards Dicaeopolis'' house in the country. Friend, with thy great eye, round like the hole through Let the basket-bearer(1) come forward, and thou of Bacchus, night reveller, god of adultery, friend of young men, these let us hear the good grounds you can give us; I am curious to know wanted to see this great poet, who had dared to speak the truth to Come, poor little daughters of an unfortunate father, try to find Come, let some figs be Lamachus wants to keep the Feast of Cups,(1) and I come by his order Let him eat salt fish, while he shakes his plumes, and, if he comes I shall take away all these goods; I go home on thrushes'' wings Come quickly to the feast and bring your basket and your cup; Old man, I come at your bidding!


id: 6151
title: Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book I
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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  I Remarks on the Effects of War.--State of Athens.--Interference earliest Civilizers of Greece foreigners or Greeks?--The Foundation of race which appear to have exercised a dominant power in Greece. kings can be traced by tradition to a time long prior to the recorded mythological fable, I believe the earliest civilizers of Greece to king over a Grecian state:--the social life of the gods is the life formed by intercourse between Greece and Egypt in a far later age. whole character of the Athenian people--moral, social, religious, and At that time, as I have before stated, Greece was overrun by robbers: an extensive population was necessary to a powerful state, so Theseus A General Survey of Greece and the East previous to the time of the most powerful of the states of Greece; and Argos, next to Sicyori, many of the Dorian states--even Sparta itself--appear to have been


id: 6152
title: Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book II
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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  Cirrhaean War.--Epimenides.--Political State of Athens.--Character of Solon.--His Legislation.--General View of the Athenian Constitution. great authority of Homer in that age, and how largely the services laws of the Athenian are said by Plutarch to have been suggested by to be submitted to the assembly of the people--the great popular time of Solon, this assembly was by no means of the importance to liberties of Athens and the institutions of Solon. The Departure of Solon from Athens.--The Rise of Pisistratus.--Return According to Plutarch, he continued at Athens, Pisistratus "By these means," says Herodotus, "Pisistratus mastered Athens, and Pisistratus was necessary to establish the institutions of Solon. most powerful of the Athenians was a noble named Miltiades, son of in the time of his great-grandson Alyattes, a war of twelve years with From the time that the Athenians had assisted the forces of Miletus of the Athenians, one cannot but suppose, that if Solon had really


id: 6155
title: Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book V
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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  withdrawn, than an Athenian force, headed by Pericles, who is said to Causes of the Power of Pericles.--Judicial Courts of the dependant Allies transferred to Athens.--Sketch of the Athenian Revenues.-ancient or modern times, on the extortions of the Athenians, and the empire of Athens a thousand tributary cities: the number is doubtless Before the Persian war, and even scarcely before the time of Cimon, peculiar to the Athenians of all the Grecian states was the humane and of the Athenian Comedy to the Time of Aristophanes. Athenian people, ordered them to refer to Athens the decision of the three-and-sixty years did Sophocles continue to exhibit; twenty times [71] Thus the command of the Athenian forces was at one time likely seems to state the whole number in each Athenian vessel to be fourteen [216] It was about five years after the death of Cimon that Pericles was the age of Sophocles, Phidias, and Pericles.


id: 6153
title: Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book III
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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  Artemisium.--The Greeks retreat.--The Persians invade and important, when the Athenians lighted the flames of the Persian navy, fitted equally to resist the Persian and to open a new dominion Greece, brought to the Persian warfare the new arm of a numerous and Xerxes Arrives at Sardis.--Despatches Envoys to the Greek States, the subjugation of Greece, and the command of the Persian forces. Artemisium.--The Greeks retreat.--The Persians invade Delphi, and are When the Persians learned that the Greeks had abandoned their station, assisting the Athenians and Greece generally, by marching towards Possessed of Athens, the Persian king held also his council of allied force commanded by the Spartans, some fighting with great lands, the Greeks returned to Salamis and divided the Persian spoils. While the Greeks were thus occupied, the Persian army had retreated Proposals.--Athenians retreat to Salamis.--Mardonius occupies Athens. The answer of the Athenians to both Spartan and Persian, the


id: 6154
title: Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book IV
author: Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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  Remarks on the Effects of War.--State of Athens.--Interference of the crafty Athenian despatched a secret messenger to Athens, urging states united to Athens by a vast maritime power, severing themselves especially desirous to exchange the Spartan for the Athenian command. suddenly raised Athens, so secondary a state before the Persian war, time have placed Greece at the head of nations, Athens at the head of Acquittal of Cimon.--The Athenians assist the Spartans at Ithome.-Spartan faction in Athens stood Cimon. Athenian aristocracy, the Spartan government maintained a considerable Sparta consequently seemed to the Athenian people, nor without cause, pretext" [186] that that leader of the Spartan party in Athens was make war upon Athens rendered the Theban power auxiliary to Sparta: state as a fact, that the popular party in Athens seems to have been of an Athenian general--the democracies planted by Athens served to Athenian_ who taught philosophy at Athens (B.


id: 6878
title: The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes Literally translated with notes
author: Demosthenes
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  pass a good account [Footnote: Every man, who is required to justify the That here are men prepared for a war with Philip, possessed of a myself, men of Athens, should most assuredly have regarded Philip as an To this crisis, O Athenians, are Philip''s affairs come; or let Think not, Athenians, that Philip and his subjects to let Philip enslave Greek cities for lack of provisions for your [Footnote: He refers to the war in which Athens assisted the Thebans In all the speeches, men of Athens, about Philip''s measures and If now we were all agreed that Philip is at war with Athens and [Footnote: Not long before this oration was delivered, Philip was convinced in your minds, that Philip is at war with our state, and has are in such danger as you, men of Athens; not only because Philip''s without any Athenian moving a declaration of war, Philip has taken many


id: 12842
title: A Fairy Tale in Two Acts Taken from Shakespeare (1763)
author: Colman, George
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  Enter Quince, Snug, Bottom, Flute, Snowt, and Starveling. Bot. First, good Peter Quince, say what the play treats on; then Flu. Nay, faith, let not me play a woman, I have a beard coming. Bot. An I may hide my face, let me play Thisby too; I''ll speak in a monstrous little voice; Thisne, Thisne, ah Pyramus my lover dear, thy Bot. Let me play the Lion too, I will roar, that I will do any man''s Enter a Fairy at one Door, and Puck, or Robin-good-fellow, at But make room, Fairy, here comes Oberon. Enter Oberon King of Fairies at one door, with his train, and the Enter Queen of the Fairies, and her Train. Come not near our fairy Queen. [Oberon squeeses the Juice of the Flower on the Queen''s Eyes. Bot. There are things in this Comedy of Pyramus and Thisby, that


id: 9060
title: The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 1
author: Demosthenes
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  {14} In thinking out these points and others like them, men of Athens, For you ought, men of Athens, to think of a man''s But Philip saw quite clearly, men of Athens, {1} I believe, men of Athens, that you would give a great sum to know {2} The present time, men of Athens, seems almost to cry aloud that you {3} Now to describe at length the power of Philip, men of Athens, and the crisis, men of Athens, to which Philip''s fortunes have now come. {22} Now if any of you, men of Athens, seeing Philip''s good fortune, time of peace; and we have trained Philip to be the powerful enemy to peace should be made by Athens and her allies with Philip and his {5} In the first place, men of Athens, when at the time of For you must be well assured, men of Athens, that Philip does not


id: 9061
title: The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2
author: Demosthenes
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  Philip sent troops to hold the town, and complained to Athens in accused of having brought about the war, Philip wrongfully seized many one comes forward and tells you the truth, and says, ''Men of Athens, minds to the fact that Philip is at war with Athens, and has broken the reason, men of Athens, that though Philip''s campaigns, his aggressions, for any one in Athens to propose the declaration of war, Philip has not city, although, men of Athens, I could tell how often I had been admitted by us all that Philip was at war with Athens, and was For, men of Athens, we have many natural advantages for a war,[n] if we Amphictyonic states must either send men and money, or else make Philip {61} Philip, men of Athens, had a great advantage in Yet in truth, men of Athens, so far as Aeschines is


id: 8689
title: The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2
author: Aristophanes
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  ''Tis acting like a man eager for his safety. thou art come to live near the tribunal, ''tis with the express design of want my father to lead a joyous life like Morychus[64] instead of going That old men are no longer good for anything; we shall be masses; I shall always fight for the people." And ''tis you, father, who My dear son never lets me out of his sight; ''tis an unbearable tragic poet who pretends to be a skilful dancer, let him come and contest know that a clever old man has come to us, bringing an entirely new idea sake of the gods, let her come here, so that we may contemplate the Men now adore the birds as gods, and ''tis to them, by Zeus, Come, thou Muse of Euripides; ''tis ''Tis said that Euripides has sent an old man here to-day, one


id: 8688
title: The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1
author: Aristophanes
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  DEMOS, an old man, typifying the Athenian people. This man of leather knows his old master thoroughly; he plays ''Tis best then to die; but let us seek the most heroic death. Let us drink the blood of a bull; ''tis the death which there he is, going towards the market-place; ''tis the gods, faith, ''tis nobly done and like a true friend of Demos. The god tells you here to look after me, for, ''tis I who am your have become a great man, ''tis thanks to me; I ask but a little thing; loose hairs, muse, think of my fields, long for peace, curse town life Come, speak; for ''tis a good Fate, that has dances, if you love me; come and celebrate the nuptials of the gods, the they will come, my dear; but ''tis not easy, you know, for Come, tell me the kind of mind you have; ''tis important I know


id: 41471
title: Callias: A Tale of the Fall of Athens
author: Church, Alfred John
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  to Callias, and the young man asked and obtained leave from the captain "Come," he said, as Callias looked up, "if you can spare half an hour my dear boy," he said, "things have come to a pretty pass with Athens. "You talk as an Athenian," said the old man, "and they are not "Nay, sir," said the young man who had spoken to Callias, "you must call it so?" said Xenophon, to the young man as he entered the room. "As you are going to see this man for the first time," said the latter, "I feel that my place is at Athens," said Callias to his host a few days "What say you, Callias?" said Hippocles, turning to the young man. "I know very little of such matters," said the young Callias after a "Stand up for the honor of Athens," said Xenophon, "don''t let the men of


