Classical Athens

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city-state historical period of Athens

Classical Athens was the influential city-state of ancient Greece during its 5th–4th century BCE cultural and political zenith, renowned for its democracy, philosophy, drama, and art.

Aliases (8)

Ancient Athens ×3
Athenian polis ×1
Athenian state ×1
Classical Athens (Delian League influence) ×1
Peloponnesian War era Athens ×1
Periclean Athens ×1
ancient Athens ×1
classical Athens ×1

Statements (55)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	city-state → historical period of Athens →
allyIn	Delian League →
built	Acropolis of Athens → Long Walls → Parthenon →
capital	Athens →
council	Boule →
country	Ancient Greece →
culturalInfluenceOn	Western civilization →
currency	Athenian drachma →
dialect	Attic Greek →
endTime	circa 322 BCE →
followedBy	Hellenistic Athens →
governmentType	direct democracy → polis →
judicialBody	Heliaia →
knownFor	architecture → comedy → democracy → drama → literature → naval power → philosophy → rhetoric → sculpture → tragedy →
language	Ancient Greek →
legislativeBody	Ecclesia →
locatedIn	Attica → Greece →
majorConflict	Greco-Persian Wars → Peloponnesian War →
notableLeader	Alcibiades → Cleisthenes → Demosthenes → Pericles → Themistocles →
notablePhilosopher	Aristotle → Plato → Socrates →
notablePlaywright	Aeschylus → Aristophanes → Euripides → Sophocles →
partOf	Classical Greece →
patronDeity	Athena →
politicalSystemInfluenceOn	modern Western democracy →
precededBy	Archaic Athens →
religion	Ancient Greek religion →
rival	Sparta → Thebes →
startTime	circa 508 BCE →
timePeriod	4th century BCE → 5th century BCE →

Referenced by (72)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alcmaeonid family ("Ancient Athens") → Athenian army → Attic Greek → Boule → Cleon → Iphicrates → Nicias → Panathenaea ("ancient Athens") → Periclean building program → Pericles → School of Socrates → Socratic family → Xanthippus →	country
Agariste → Aristophanes → Cimon → Critobulus → Hipparchus of Athens ("Ancient Athens") → Menander ("Ancient Athens") → Miltiades the Younger → Phaenarete → Phaenarete → Plato → Sophroniscus (son of Socrates) → Sophroniscus (son) → Xanthippe →	countryOfCitizenship
Aristocles → Crito → Phaenarete → Sophroniscus → Sophroniscus →	associatedWith
Alcibiades → Anaxagoras → Lamprocles → Socrates → Thucydides →	citizenship
Athenian Treasury → Eryximachus → Protagoras → Socratic dialogues of Plato → Sophocles →	culturalContext
Clouds → Pheidippides → Ways and Means →	countryOfOrigin
Agathon → Dionysia → Pausanias →	timePeriod
Athenian drachma → Attic Greek → Μενέξενoς →	usedIn
Ecclesia → Heliaia →	locatedIn
Clouds ("Peloponnesian War era Athens") → The Death of Socrates →	timePeriodDepicted
Euripides →	birthPlace
Anytus →	culture
La Mort de Socrate →	depictsTimePeriod
Athenian democracy ("classical Athens") →	developedIn
Callicrates ("Periclean Athens") →	era
Panathenaea →	floruitPeriod
Athenian army ("Athenian state") →	fundedBy
Ecclesia ("Athenian polis") →	governs
Trial of Socrates →	hasLocation
Age of Pericles →	hasPart
Athenian cavalry →	historicalPeriod
Strepsiades →	literaryPeriod
Socratic method →	originatedIn
Ancient Agora of Athens →	partOf
Oeconomicus →	setting
Συμπόσιον →	settingPeriod
Kingdom of the Bosporus →	tradedWith
Ionia ("Classical Athens (Delian League influence)") →	underRuleOf