Attica - Article Index

Encyclopedia - List Of Municipalities Of Greece By Area: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Municipalities Of Greece By Area - Attica
List of municipalities of Greece by area - Attiki. ... See also:List of municipalities of Greece by area, List of municipalities of G...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Attica: Encyclopedia - Attica
Attica (in Greek: Αττική, Attike; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a periphery (subdivision) in Greece, containin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Attica: Encyclopedia Ii - Attica - Communications
Attica - Television. 902 TV High TV - Athens Magic Peiraia - Piraeus Attica - Radio. 87.7 En Lefko - Athens: 87.7 FM http://www.87...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Attica: Encyclopedia Ii - Attica - Communications
Attica - Television. 902 TV High TV - Athens Magic Peiraia - Piraeus Attica - Radio. 87.7 En Lefko - Athens: 87.7 FM http://www.87...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mati: Encyclopedia - Mati
Mati (Greek: Mατι meaning eye) is a small idyllic village in Greece. It is located at the east coast of the Attica region, 29 kilomete...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1971: Encyclopedia - 1971
1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). 1971 - Events. January 1 - British Divorce Reform Ac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anakes: Encyclopedia - Anakes
Anakes were deities worshipped in Attica and Argos. The word is a title which means lords or kings, for they were the sons of Zeus (and w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Black-figure Pottery: Encyclopedia - Black-figure Pottery
The black-figure pottery technique is a style of ancient Greek pottery painting in which the decoration appears as black silhouettes on a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cecrops I: Encyclopedia - Cecrops I
The name Cecrops means 'face with a tail' and it is said that this mythical Greek king, born from the earth itself, had his top half shap...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cadmus Of Miletus: Encyclopedia - Cadmus Of Miletus
Cadmus of Miletus, according to some ancient authorities the oldest of the logographi. Modern scholars, who accept this view, assign him ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bendis: Encyclopedia - Bendis
Bendis was a Thracian goddess of the hunt whom the Greeks identified with Artemis, and hence with the other two aspects of the former Min...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Attic Greek: Encyclopedia - Attic Greek
Attic Greek is the ancient dialect of Greek that was spoken in Attica, which includes Athens. Of the ancient dialects, it is the most sim...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Athenian Democracy: Encyclopedia - Athenian Democracy
The Athenian democracy (sometimes called classical democracy) was the democratic system developed in the Greek city-state of Athens (comp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Artemis Loutsa: Encyclopedia - Artemis Loutsa
Artemis, Artemida (Greek, Modern: Αρτεμίδα, Ancient/Katharevousa: -str) or Loutsa (Greek: Λούτσα) is a suburban town in eas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Athens: Encyclopedia - Athens
Athens (Greek: Αθήνα, Athína; IPA /a'θina/) is the capital of Greece, and of the Attica prefecture of Greece. Modern Athens is a l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Attalus I: Encyclopedia - Attalus I
Attalus I (Soter "Savior") (269 BCE–197 BCE)1 ruled Pergamon, a Greek city state in present-day Turkey, from 241 BCE to 197 BCE. He was...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Attica Town New York: Encyclopedia - Attica Town New York
Attica is a town located in Wyoming County, New York, USA. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 6,028. The town is n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aulus Gellius: Encyclopedia - Aulus Gellius
Aulus Gellius (c. AD 125 - after 180), Latin author and grammarian, possibly of African origin, probably born and certainly brought up at...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Attica Correctional Facility: Encyclopedia - Attica Correctional Facility
The Attica Correctional Facility is one of the most well known prisons in the United States, second possibly to Alcatraz. It is located i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of Thermopylae: Encyclopedia - Battle Of Thermopylae
In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in a mountain pass. Though vast...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cephissus: Encyclopedia - Cephissus
Cephissus (Greek Κήφισσος: Kifissós, Kephissós, or Kêphissos) or Cephisus (Greek Κήφισος: Kêphisos) the name of severa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gulf Of Corinth: Encyclopedia - Gulf Of Corinth
The Gulf of Corinth or the Corinthian Gulf is a deep inlet of the Ionian Sea separating the Peloponnese from western mainland Greece. It ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vilia: Encyclopedia - Vilia
Vilia (Greek: Βίλια) is a municipality of the Greek prefecture of Attica. Other related archivesAttica, Greek    » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Varnava: Encyclopedia - Varnava
Varnava is a community of the Greek prefecture of Attica. Other related archivesAttica, Greek    » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cranaus: Encyclopedia - Cranaus
In Greek mythology, Cranaus was the second King of Athens, succeeding Cecrops I. He was autochthonous (born from the earth), like hi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argolis: Encyclopedia - Argolis
Argolis (Greek, Modern: Αργολίδα Argolida, Ancient/Katharevousa: Αργολίς—still the official, formal name; see also List ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darius I Of Persia: Encyclopedia - Darius I Of Persia
Darius the Great (ca. 549 BC– 485/486 BC; Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁 Dārayawuš: "He Who Holds Firm the Good"), was the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Wine-producing Regions: Encyclopedia - List Of Wine-producing Regions
The following is a list of regions where wine grapes are grown and wine is made from them. Wine grapes mostly grow between the 30th and t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Voula: Encyclopedia - Voula
Voula (Greek: Βούλα) is a municipality and a suburban town in southern Attica and is the second southernmost municipality in the Meg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Celeus: Encyclopedia - Celeus
Celeus was a king in Greek mythology. While Demeter was searching for her daughter, having taken the form of an old woman called Doso, sh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kea Island: Encyclopedia - Kea Island
Kea, also known as Gia (Κέα / Τζια in Greek), Tzia and Keos (Ancient: Κέως), is an island of the Cyclades archipelago, in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wyoming County New York: Encyclopedia - Wyoming County New York
Wyoming County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of 2000, the population is 43,424. The county seat is Warsaw. The na...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysia: Encyclopedia - Dionysia
The Dionysia was a large religious festival in ancient Athens in honour of the god Dionysus, the central event of which was the performan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brauron: Encyclopedia - Brauron
Brauron (Greek, Ancient: Βραυρών, Modern: Βραυρώνα Vravrona or Vravronas) is an early sanctuary site on the east coast of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia - Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece is the term used to describe the Greek-speaking world in ancient times. It refers not only to the geographical peninsula o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Art In Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia - Art In Ancient Greece
The art of ancient Greece has exercised an enormous influence on the culture of many countries from ancient times until the present, part...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anixi: Encyclopedia - Anixi
Anoixi or Anoixi (Greek: Άνοιξη meaning cool, dew) is a rather exclusive suburb in Attica, Greece -- just about 23 km north of Athe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anavyssos: Encyclopedia - Anavyssos
Anavyssos, also Anavissos, Anavysos, Anavisos (Greek: Ανάβυσσος, until the 1990s, Anavissos) is a suburban Athens town in southe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amphiaraus: Encyclopedia - Amphiaraus
In Greek mythology, Amphiaraus, or Amphiaraos ("doubly-cursed") was the son of Oicles and husband of Eriphyle. Amphiaraus was the King of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alcibiades: Encyclopedia - Alcibiades
Alcibiades Cleiniou Scambonides (also Alkibiades) (ancient Greek: Αλκιβιαδες Κλεινιου Σκαμβωνιδες)¹ (c. 450...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Amazons: Encyclopedia - Amazons
In Greek mythology, the Ἀμαζόνες, Amazons were either an ancient legendary nation of female warriors or a contemporary land of w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ampelakia: Encyclopedia - Ampelakia
Ampelakia (Greek: Αμπελάκια, meaning vineyards), also Ambelakia or Abelakia is the capital city of the second municipality of Sa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greece: Encyclopedia - Greece
Greece, (Greek: Ελλάδα, older form: Ελλάς, Hellas), officially the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρατ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Attic Calendar: Encyclopedia - Attic Calendar
The Attic calendar is the calendar that was in use in ancient Attica, the ancestral territory of the Athenian polis. This article focuses...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lemnos: Encyclopedia - Lemnos
Lemnos (mod. Limnos Greek: Λήμνος Turkish: Limni), an island in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. The island, part of the Greek ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hierophant: Encyclopedia - Hierophant
The role of the hierophant in religion is to bring the congregants into the presence of that which is deemed holy. The word comes from An...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demeter: Encyclopedia - Demeter
Dêmêtêr (or Demetra) (DEH-MEH-ter) ("mother-goddess" or perhaps "distribution-mother") is the Greek goddess of agriculture, the pure ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Solon: Encyclopedia - Solon
Solon (Greek: Σόλων, ca. 638 BC–558 BC. Pronounced sŏ'lōn) was a famous Athenian lawmaker and Lyric poet. He was the son of Exec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Architecture Of Ancient Greece: Encyclopedia - Architecture Of Ancient Greece
This article discusses architecture in Ancient Greece. Architecture (building executed to an aesthetically considered design) was extinct...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthousa: Encyclopedia - Anthousa
Anthousa, also Anthoussa (Greek: Ανθούσα meaning "in blossom") is a suburb of the periphery of Attica, Greece. It lies north of Ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antigonus Ii Gonatas: Encyclopedia - Antigonus Ii Gonatas
Antigonus II Gonatas (c. 319 BC—239 BC) was a powerful ruler who definitely established the Antigonid dynasty in Macedonia and acquired...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agkistri: Encyclopedia - Agkistri
Agkistri (Greek: Αγκίστρι) is a community of the Greek prefecture of Attica. Other related archivesAttica, Greek    » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Athens: Encyclopedia - History Of Athens
The history of Athens is the longest of any city in Europe: Athens has been continuously inhabited for at least 3,000 years. It was the b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aegean Civilization: Encyclopedia - Aegean Civilization
Aegean civilization is the general term for the prehistoric civilizations in Greece and the Aegean. It was formerly called "Mycenaean" be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aegina: Encyclopedia - Aegina
Aegina (Greek: Αίγινα Egina), one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, 31 miles (50 km) from Athens. Tradition der...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aegina Mythology: Encyclopedia - Aegina Mythology
In Greek mythology, Aegina was the daughter of the river-god Asopus and the nymph Metope. She bore at least two children: Menoetius by Ac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Actaeus: Encyclopedia - Actaeus
Actaeus (Actaeüs) was the first king of Athens, father of Agraulus and father-in-law to Cecrops, the second king of Athens. Also gave At...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acropolis Athens: Encyclopedia - Acropolis Athens
The Acropolis of Athens is the best known acropolis (high city) in Greece. Although there are many other acropoleis in Greece, the signif...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Troy: Encyclopedia - Troy
Troy (Greek Τροία Troia also Ἰλιον; Latin: Troia, Ilium) is a legendary city, scene of the Trojan War, part of which is descri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 2nd Millennium Bc: Encyclopedia - 2nd Millennium Bc
(3rd millennium BC – 2nd millennium BC – 1st millennium BC – other millennia) 2nd millennium BC - Events. To grasp the spirit of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 425 Bc: Encyclopedia - 425 Bc
Centuries: 6th century BC - 5th century BC - 4th century BC Decades: 470s BC 460s BC 450s BC 440s BC 430s BC - 420s BC - 410s BC 400s BC ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agia Paraskevi: Encyclopedia - Agia Paraskevi
Agia Paraskevi (Greek: Άγια Παρασκευή) is a suburb in Athens, Greece. It is bounded northeast by Athens, where ERT studios a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Afidnes: Encyclopedia - Afidnes
Afidnes (Greek, Modern: Αφίδνες, Ancient/Katharevoussa: Αφίδναι), older forms: Afidnai, Afidne, Latin: Aphidnae, sometimes ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1280s Bc: Encyclopedia - 1280s Bc
Centuries: 14th century BC - 13th century BC - 12th century BC Decades: 1330s BC 1320s BC 1310s BC 1300s BC 1290s BC - 1280s BC - 1270s B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agios Konstantinos: Encyclopedia - Agios Konstantinos
Agios Konstantinos (Greek: Άγιος Κωνσταντίνος meaning Saint Constantine), other forms: Agios Konstandinos, Agios Konstad...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agios Stefanos: Encyclopedia - Agios Stefanos
Agios Stefanos (Greek: meaning Saint Stephen) is a rather exclusive suburb in Attica, Greece -- just about 23 km north of Athens. Agios S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Age Of Pericles: Encyclopedia Ii - Age Of Pericles - Arts And Literature
Historians consider the Athenian V and VI century BC as the Golden Age of sculpture and arquitecture. In this period the ornamental eleme...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Agioi Theodoroi: Encyclopedia Ii - Agioi Theodoroi - History
In 2001, a fire started on a mountain north of Aghioi Theodori and south of the Geraneia mountains. It lasted days. It spread close to th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Erie Railroad: Encyclopedia Ii - Erie Railroad - History
Erie Railroad - New York and Erie Rail Road: 1832-1861. The New York and Erie Rail Road was chartered April 24, 1832 to connect the Hud...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dionysian Mysteries: Encyclopedia Ii - Dionysian Mysteries - A Brief History Of The Early Dionysos Cult
The ecstatic cult of Dionysos was originally thought to have been a late arrival in Greece from Thrace or Asia Minor, due to the populari...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sophocles: Encyclopedia Ii - Sophocles - Surviving Works
Years are approximate Sophocles - The Theban plays. 442 BC Antigone 427 BC Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex or Oedipus Tyrannos) 407 BC O...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sicilian Expedition: Encyclopedia Ii - Sicilian Expedition - The Debate
Nicias, Alcibiades, and Lamachus were chosen to lead the expedition, although Nicias had no interest in leading it. Five days after they ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Franklin D. Roosevelt: Encyclopedia Ii - Franklin D. Roosevelt - Early Life
Franklin Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, at Hyde Park, in the Hudson River valley in upstate New York. His father, James Roosevel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexander Town New York: Encyclopedia Ii - Alexander Town New York - Demographics
As of the census2 of 2000, there are 2,451 people, 860 households, and 651 families residing in the town. The population density is 26.6/...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rafina: Encyclopedia Ii - Rafina - Geographical Location
Rafina is east of the Penteli mountains and northeast of the Mesogeia plain with an exception of farmland near the coastline to the north...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Elektra Comics: Encyclopedia Ii - Elektra Comics - Character History
Elektra comics - Family and early life. Elektra was born on an unnamed Greek island of the Aegean Sea to Hugo Kostas Natchios and his w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Attica Prison Riots: Encyclopedia Ii - Attica Prison Riots - People Killed
This is a partial listing of those killed in the Attica Prison riots. Attica Prison riots - Prisoners. Elliot "L.D." Barkley Sam Melvi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Attica Town New York: Encyclopedia Ii - Attica Town New York - Demographics
As of the census2 of 2000, there are 6,028 people, 1,497 households, and 1,053 families residing in the town. The population density is 6...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Euboea: Encyclopedia Ii - Euboea - History
The history of the island is for the most part that of its two principal cities, Chalcis and Eretria. Both cities were Ionian settlements...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Archidamus Ii: Encyclopedia Ii - Archidamus Ii - Quotes
"If we undertake the war without preparation, we should by hastening its commencement only delay its conclusion." "In practice we always ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fountain County Indiana: Encyclopedia Ii - Fountain County Indiana - Demographics
As of the census2 of 2000, there are 17,954 people, 7,041 households, and 5,041 families residing in the county. The population density i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Stanford Prison Experiment: Encyclopedia Ii - Stanford Prison Experiment - Goals And Methods
The study was funded by the US Navy to explain conflict in its and the Marine Corps' prison systems. Zimbardo and his team intended to te...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Acropolis Athens: Encyclopedia Ii - Acropolis Athens - The Periclean Building Program
Most of the major temples were rebuilt under the leadership of Pericles during the Golden Age of Athens (460–430 BC). Phidias, a great ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Derveni: Encyclopedia Ii - Derveni - In Greece
Derveni - Related. Chani Derveni, a place located in the western part of Attica ... See also:Derveni, Derveni - In Albania, Derveni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arbëreshë: Encyclopedia Ii - Arbëreshë - Language
The language of the Arbëresh is called Arbërisht. There is no official political, administrative or cultural structure which represents...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battle Of Aegospotami: Encyclopedia Ii - Battle Of Aegospotami - Prelude
Battle of Aegospotami - Lysander's campaigns. In 405 BC, following the severe Spartan defeat at the Battle of Arginusae, Lysander, the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iphigeneia: Encyclopedia Ii - Iphigeneia - Some Modern Sources
BONNARD, A. Iphigénie à Aulis. Tragique et Poesie. Museum Helveticum, Basel, v. 2, p. 87-107, 1945. CROISILLE, J.-M. Le sacrifice d’I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ostracism: Encyclopedia Ii - Ostracism - Ostracism In Context
Ostracism is crucially different from a judicial process: there is no charge and no defence can be mounted by the person expelled. The tw...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Olive Fruit: Encyclopedia Ii - Olive Fruit - History
It is not known exactly when the wild olive passed under the care of the husbandman and became the fruitful garden olive. The frequent re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nea Makri: Encyclopedia Ii - Nea Makri - Population
Until the 1970s, most of the population were rural. As housing developments came to the area, the population boomed and also into the set...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Methana: Encyclopedia Ii - Methana - Historical Population
Half of the entire peninsula's population lives in Methana. Methana has a school, a lyceum, a gymnasuim, a church, a post office, a port ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parthenon: Encyclopedia Ii - Parthenon - Design And Construction
The Parthenon was built at the initiative of Pericles, the leading Athenian politician of the 5th century BC. It was built under the gene...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pelasgians: Encyclopedia Ii - Pelasgians - Classical Greek Uses Of Pelasgian
Pelasgians - In Homer. The ethnonym Pelasgoí (Pelasgians) is of unknown etymology. It first occurs in the poems of Homer: the Pelasgia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Troy: Encyclopedia Ii - Troy - Legendary Troy
The story of the Trojans first began in myth and legend. According to Greek mythology, the Trojans were the ancient citizens of the city ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Greco-persian Wars: Encyclopedia Ii - Greco-persian Wars - Origins
At the end of the 6th century BC, Darius the Great ruled over an immense realm, from western India to eastern Europe. In 513 BC Darius, f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 2nd Millennium Bc: Encyclopedia Ii - 2nd Millennium Bc - Events
To grasp the spirit of the 2nd millennium BC, we must divide it in two parts, for there is a period of change around its middle so import...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Peloponnesian War: Encyclopedia Ii - Peloponnesian War - The Archidamian War
Sparta and its allies, with the exception of Corinth, were almost exclusively land based powers, able to summon large land armies which w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Loeb Classical Library: Encyclopedia Ii - Loeb Classical Library - Volumes Published
(from [1]) A tip for readers: The listings of Loeb volumes at online bookstores vary considerably. If you want to buy a volume, it is pro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Wine-producing Regions: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Wine-producing Regions - Europe
List of wine-producing regions - Austria. Burgenland Northeastern and eastern Lower Austria (most notable in the Weinviertel and Wacha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organismós Sidirodrómon Elládas: Encyclopedia Ii - Organismós Sidirodrómon Elládas - Existing Lines
Organismós Sidirodrómon Elládas - SPAP Athens - Corinth - Patras. The railway is divided into divisions including (part of the line ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theseus: Encyclopedia Ii - Theseus - Birth And The Six Labours Of Theseus
Aegeus, one of the primordial kings of Athens, found a bride at Troezen, a small city southwest of Athens, in Aethra, daughter of Troezen...   » Read the article