Where Athens was
A major Greek city-state and the principal city of Attika. Modern Athens in Greece. Athenaeum places it in the Attica & Saronic Gulf region. The source gives an approximate location.
Periods the source attests
These are the historical periods in which the source records the place. A gap is not evidence that it was empty.
- Bronze Age
- Archaic Greece
- Classical Greece
- Hellenistic world
- Roman world
- Late antiquity
Its names
The source lists these other names and spellings for Athens.
- Athenae
- Αθήνα
- Athina, Athína
- Ἀθῆναι
- Athēnai, Athenai
- Athen
Connections in the app
Socrates, The examined life. Athena and the city, A story about belonging.
Read from here
From festival to first definition in The Republic. The first reading of every book is free.
About the illustration
Generated historical interpretation. Not an archaeological reconstruction.
Questions about ancient Athens
Where does the information about Athens come from?
From the place's record in the Pleiades gazetteer, with its references, names and periods kept as the source gives them.
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