The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
In the midst of the heavy, hot fragrance of summer, and of the clean salty smell of the sea, there was the odor of wounded men, a sickly odor of blood and antiseptics which marked the zone of every military hospital. All Athens quickly took on that o...
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?
In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.
I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life.
At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.
People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.
I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.
An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.
The Olympic Games of the Modern Era began in 1896 in the city of Athens.
Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.
Athens is a great place for me. It is my second home. It's where I won my first world championship medal, it's where I set my world record.
My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.
Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster.
I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it was my first big win at the Olympics.
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.
Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what they can and can't do.
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
