Examples of Athens in a Sentence

• Examples of Athens
  1. So when Darren Chiacchia, an elite rider who competed for the United States in the 2004 Athens Olympics, missed the first few maneuvers of his dressage test during a low-level competition here, the judge asked him to stop midsequence.
  2. The Parthenon in Athens is an octostyle, but most large Greek temples are hexastyle.
  3. the troubles whereinto the state of Athens fell — Sir Walter Raleigh.
  4. 1980: Hated by the archons of Athens for his fearless condemnation of municipal graft, he was hypocritically arraigned on a charge of corrupting Athenian youth. (Burgess, Earthly Powers)
  5. Athens was the fons et origo of democracy.
  6. In Classical Athens, there were six obols to one drachma.
  7. And this Great King was a far-way, tremendous, golden figure, moving in a splendor as of fairy tales; palaced marvelously, so travelers told, in cities compared with which even Athens seemed mean.
  8. This remarkable institution which had suffered materially with the death of Rhiga, was revived in Greece about the same period with the establishment of the Philomuse or literary society at Athens.
  9. The Peloponnesian war is a proper subject for history, the siege of Athens for an epic poem, and the death of Alcibiades for a tragedy.

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