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Greece has promised to make casts of the sculptures for the British Museum and bear all the costs of returning them to Athens.
The previous day, an Athens court ruled that the strike was illegal and abusive.
The facility in Athens is a quantum leap forward, even from the setup in Sydney.
Athens reached its zenith during the fifth century B.C., a period known as its Golden Age.
Outstanding buildings constructed in the 5th-century rebirth of Athens include the PARTHENON and Erechtheum on the acropolis.
The Olympic flame, which left Athens on June 2, will arrive in London from Paris a week on Saturday.
Now he is competing in the Paralympics in Athens as part of the Great Britain wheelchair rugby team.
From the 450s onward, Pericles rebuilt the city of Athens, a city ravaged by years of wars with the Persians.
You can see the Parthenon from anywhere in Athens, gleaming whitely on the Acropolis.
It was not beyond the realms of possibility that New Zealand could have beaten Australia and qualified for Athens.
He struck me as a latter-day Socrates who had missed out on his true calling in the agora of Periclean Athens by some 2,500 years.
I've driven in Paris, in Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in Rome and in Athens, all of them reckoned to be nightmarish.
The story of Oedipus begins north of ancient Athens, in the kingdom of Thebes where King Laius and his wife, Jocasta, had a son.
The big news story of the Athens Olympics was Paula Radcliffe, Britian's red-hot marathon gold-medal favourite, failing to finish.
Down I rode from the Black Sea steppe to wreak vengeance on the men of Athens.
This year Paul took his hobby to a new level when he set his sights on the Olympic Games in Athens.
A series of three selection regattas that began in December last year ended on Sunday with 44 rowers being named for the Athens Olympic team.
The Melians were colonists of the Lacedaemonians who would not submit to Athens like the other islanders.
Shakespeare has left us a satiric portrait of the poet who writes verses by the yard to please a patron in Timon of Athens.
Hippolyta is the conquered queen of Amazons who marries Theseus and returns to Athens with him.
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What followed was a chaotic period in which Sparta, Thebes, and a renascent Athens jostled for power, with Persia stirring the pot.
This is what appears to have happened with the most recent Games, staged last year in Athens.
Eleusis Bay, a floating anchorage of laid-up ships near Athens, is gradually being cleared of ships that no longer have a cruising future.
Athens may be a year away but it's never too early to rev up the marketing bandwagon.
Two of those lifters competed in Athens after resurrecting their careers following a drug ban.
She protested her innocence, passed a lie-detector test and went to Athens with her head held high.
A new boat, with slightly elevated riggers to combat the expected choppiness of the lake in Athens.
Withdrawing a day before the start of racing means they will first compete as lightweights for 2004 at Athens.
Only one boxer, Amir Khan, the young lightweight from Bolton, has earned a place in Athens by right.
I am a philologist of the Athens University, specialising in Cypriot linguistics and literature.
Next thing you know, you're on your way to Athens to work as a live-in for a diplomat's family.
Sonia is the first kiwi competing on the first full day of competition in Athens, rowing in her single sculls heat around early Saturday evening.
Prince Andrew of Greece was reburied in the royal Summer Palace at Tatoi in Athens.
Aristotle lived in Athens much of his life, founded a school of philosophy called the Lyceum, and is usually reckoned to be the founder of logic.
One does not have to go back to ancient Athens to grasp the depressing fact that most authoritarians do not surrender power voluntarily.
Clearly the sanctuary on Temple Hill was, like the Acropolis of Athens, a prominent and important location for the display of state documents.
He claimed the notable scalp of Athens bronze medallist David Davies, in the 400 metres freestyle.
The schoolboys of classical Athens memorized the Homeric passages that taught the classical virtues.
His plan had always been to retire from the track after Athens to concentrate on half-marathons and marathons.
The first minister began a four-day visit to the Olympic games in Athens yesterday to cheer on Scots athletes.
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But in adding gold in Athens to her victory in Sydney, Robertson became the greatest ever Olympic Scotswoman.
He arrived in Athens ranked sixth in the world, but only just scraped into the semi-finals after qualifying in 16th place.
Both silver medalists at the Athens Olympics have had to scratch from their event.
He has supported his wife, Sonia, in her successful quest to qualify a single sculls boat for the Athens Olympics.
Meanwhile, skiers are looking with envy at the fresh snow which is still drifting in Athens.
In Athens, her Olympic career ended when she finished seventh in her 100m semi-final.
The three people who made the team are very good athletes and they all are capable of medalling for us in Athens.
The boxer, along with the Athens gold medallists, will be meeting the Prime Minister next Tuesday.
The big guns hit the pool in Athens again on Sunday night, in what could be the event of the meet.
This style of building was brought to Athens by Bavarian architects, in an effort to reintroduce Greeks to noble replicas of ancient Greece.
Karin will be competing in both the time trial and the individual pursuit in Athens.
Lisa could only manage a total of 216 kilograms, a lift that topped her silver medal performance at Athens last year.
After weeks of speculation, it has been decided that he will be the final Olympic torch-bearer in the Sydney leg of the Athens torch relay.
She has even agreed to be one of the final torch-bearers at this year's Olympic Games in Athens.
He is a farmer who marries a rich woman from the city and finds life in Athens with her and his delinquent son torturous.
The bare observation of the total eclipse tells you that on that date the Sun, Moon, and Athens were aligned.
Born around 524 or 525 B.C. in the city of Eleusis near Athens, the Greek dramatist Aeschylus is known as the first great tragedian.
It should not be a surprise if two of the Indian trap shooters find their way to the Olympic Games in Athens.
He had won the World championship and had qualified for Athens too, but did not make the Australian team after the selection trials.
Since then trials and tribulations have been the order of the day but he maintains that he is still aiming for nothing less than gold at Athens.
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Her gold medal was a sixth for Japan in Athens, a record haul for a single Games for one country in judo.
The first ancient cities to emerge from the mists of time will be Athens, Rome, London and Norwich.
The Athens site has a 400-meter, six-lane, all-weather track with pole vault and high jump pits and long jump and triple jump runways.
The force sent to Sicily consisted of 134 triremes and 27,000 men, the largest Athens had ever fielded.
You may or may not have noticed, but the games of the 28th Olympiad are taking place in its birthplace of Athens.
Dozens of theater companies in Athens, Thessaloniki, and other areas, perform contemporary works and ancient dramas in modern Greek.
Pupils had top tuition from an Olympic artist and may even get to display their work in Athens next month.
When Elgin first went to Athens, his intention was simply to make a plaster cast of the sculptures.
Besides the famous Golden Age of Athens, earlier Greek civilizations also flourished and produced sightworthy art.
He blesses the newlyweds and tells the fairies to go through Athens and bless all the couples in love.
Taiwan grabbed two gold medals, two silvers and one bronze at the Athens Olympics.
Nadeem Siddique hopes to see Khan, who scooped a silver medal at Athens, and his family at ringside.
But he was forced to flee to Athens when the revolt was crushed, and was prosecuted for having held tyrannical power in Chersonesus.
The Tyrannicides were even cited as the liberators of Athens in drinking songs.
She picks me up on her motorbike, and we chat as we zoom through the terrible Athens traffic.
The train has never seemed as sketchy as the one I'm on from Athens to Patras.
He frustrated Thebes' plans for a united Boeotian federation by referring Plataea to Athens for alliance.
But just as Athens had not joined Sparta in revolt in 331, so now Sparta, Arcadia, and the Boeotians offered no support to Athens.
Additionally, the Parthenon Marbles have always been on show here free of charge, a generosity unmatched in Athens.
Our sources agree that the wealthy citizens of Athens conducted their business in minae, and that in these circles a drachma was small change.
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In no other city but Athens could we have come out of the adventure unscathed.
With time not an issue, Robic stopped for an unscheduled rest in Athens after consulting with his crew.
At weekends, parties of Greeks descend from Athens, three and a half hours away by car.
In his writing about the soldiers of Athens, Pressfield salutes citizen soldiery.
During a speech in Athens she said concerns over neutrality had been addressed at the recent EU summit in Seville.
For nightlife, Athens is a vibrant city that more or less stays open all night long.
Later it emerged that they had gone to see Tzekos in Glyfada to the south-east of Athens.
Wiggins struck gold on the track in Athens last year and is on nodding terms with the American great.
Athens was no longer the center of Hellenic civilization, having been defeated by the Spartans.
On the other hand, Spartan isolationism appeared as a direct threat to Athens.
It is the focus of the first week of any Olympiad and in Athens that will be no different despite a fraught build-up to the event.
He used a Stanley spinnerbait, according to a release from the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens, in six feet of water.
Greek antiquities were also seen in Atlanta in 1996 and will no doubt be a central focus at the 2004 Games in Athens.
And after three or four days I sent a cable to Athens that I wouldn't be able to speak at the University of Athens.
The Omonia Hotel in Athens is the most impressive of the three hotels featured, as the modern structure stands eight storeys.
Athens Olympics organisers took the extraordinary step early yesterday of training a standby athlete to light the Olympic flame.
Arriving in Athens, the son of Sopaeus was introduced to the banker Pasion, with whom he deposited his money, as much as 1,000 gold staters.
It has also raised the prospects of a wide open Olympic basketball tournament in Athens.
It will be one of their last chances to see who is in shape and in contention for the Olympic title in Athens.
Pinsent guided Britain to first place in the coxless fours at the Athens games yesterday morning to claim his fourth Olympic gold medal.
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The pair are Britain's best and possibly only hope for a medal in badminton in Athens.
At the festival celebrated in the country around Athens, a jar of wine and a vine headed the procession.
The Persians were taken in and sent their navy into the narrow strait between Athens and the island of Salamis.
This severe treatment, which Alexander had his Greek allies confirm, cowed potential opponents such as Athens.
He next persuaded Athens to send him with a large hoplite force to help Sparta against the helots, now in revolt.
It was, of course, a poisonous plant, hemlock, that gave Athens its state poison, used for the execution of Socrates.
They were outposts of Europe, transplanted bits of London or Manchester, or more recently of Athens or Rome.
During the Peloponnesian War, Athens, the champion of democracies, of course supported the democrats throughout Greece whenever it could.
Yet she has shown at various Commonwealth Games that she has a fine temperament and might have acquitted herself outstandingly in Athens.
This month's Athens Olympics will become the first to be broadcast live over the Net.
Socrates was married, but he seemed to spend his time charming the handsome male youths of Athens.
Great Britain will be hoping for a hat trick of golds today to add to the two won in successive days in Athens.
That is how sportswear manufacturers describe their latest suits designed to help Olympic competitors fight the summer heat in Athens.
Among many other honours, we should mention that he received honorary doctorates from the universities of Athens and Tel Aviv.
In Athens they scarcely appear above the horizon, so the early Greek texts undermined their importance.
The Jeremy Wariner-led U.S. medal sweep at the Athens Olympics heralded a new era for American sprinters.
First, sortition was the main system for choosing political officials in ancient Athens.
He roamed the streets of Athens asking people provocative questions that exposed uncomfortable contradictions in their beliefs.
And so one recent evening I pulled into Athens, Ga., the 10th stop on my 15-city, self-engineered, all-drive, no-fly book tour.
For the Greeks it is a matter of national pride, and over the next three weeks Athens will have to prove itself capable of hosting the modern games.
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Two British gold-medal-winning athletes from the Athens Paralympics will be taking part in a display of horsemanship at this year's Grand National meeting.
Having raised up a Spartan fleet to destroy Athens, they then opened their coffers to Athens and helped it rebuild.
The original democracy, in ancient Athens, was built around a culture of performance, in political life as in the theatre, the law court, the gymnasium and the symposium.
The school has a rich history of producing members of Britain's judo team another old schoolboy finished fourth at this year's Olympics in Athens.
It was first applied in the Theatre of Dionysus at Athens in the second half of the 5th century BC, when drama began to require more elaborate scenic arrangements.
Minos threatened war against Athens in retribution for his son's death.
The oracle's prophesy declares that Athens will one day conquer Thebes.
At the Summer Olympics, which begin in Athens, Greece, next week, the world's elite athletes will once again dazzle us with their almost superhuman qualities.
Athens is revelling in its role as the keeper of the Olympic flame.
It is a soupily warm Friday afternoon in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, on the day the Olympic torch reaches the former host city, en route to Athens.
After a few scares, Athens won its race to be ready for the 28th Olympiad.
The team is a mix of age and experience with three newcomers and three experienced Olympians, all of whom have demonstrated their ability to medal in Athens.
Have you put your money on Ian Thorpe being given the honour of carrying the Australian flag at the Athens Games opening ceremony on Friday night?
The Persians marched across the Attic peninsula and burned Athens.
The suspension is excellent and it coped very well with the pre-Olympic roadworks around Athens, as it did on bumpy rural roads further out into Attica.
The reigning Olympic asymmetric bars champion had suffered mishaps in Atlanta and Sydney and Athens was her final chance to clinch the all-round title.
That was what tragedy's multivocal form did in Athens.
It would be unfeasible, I thought, and not a little greedy, to cover a gruelling election campaign, only to face another three-week marathon in Athens.
What everyone is now talking about is the cost of our Athens pappyshow.
When August comes around and Bovell more than likely mounts the medal rostrum in Athens, he will find himself under a kind of scrutiny he's never experienced.
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Rajinder is optimistic that India will gets its act together in Athens.
The media's finally picking up on the petty and heavy-handed restrictions in place here in Athens that I've been banging on about since I arrived.
Their free clinic in central Athens is housed in a shabby apartment that smells of feverish bodies and pungent medicine.
Cop has medaled in three Olympic Games, winning Silver in Athens, Gold in Sydney and Bronze in Barcelona, all in addition to eight World Championship medals.
Talking of which, I'm heading to Athens at the crack of dawn to get a first look at preparations for the Athens Olympics, where I'll be spending a chunk of my Summer.
Sparta could not hold on long to naval dominion, but jealously tried to prevent Athens from regaining it.
Ian Thorpe will race the 400 metres freestyle in Athens, as expected.
The following year she was favourite to take world championships gold in Athens but left the track in tears after suffering a ruptured Achilles tendon and a torn calf muscle.
Sohail Abbas was the top scorer at the Athens Olympics with 11 goals.
Success in Athens is already making waves across the Mediterranean.
And yet, from Oslo to Athens, from London to Madrid, it has been virtually open season on them in the last few years, especially in supposedly liberal media.
So was tennis great Martina Navratilova, who played in the 2004 Athens games.
The Athens pool strikes you as the most unlikely emotional cauldron.
A headache, according to him, could be one thing if it afflicted a stoneworker in Corinth and quite another if it plagued a philosopher of Athens.
Although there was a full house for the much-praised opening ceremony in Athens on Friday night, spectators have stayed away in droves in the first four days of competition.
All over Athens, in the lead-up to this morning's opening ceremony, buildings have been touched up and instant lawn rolled out to spruce up the ancient city for the Olympics.
Athens is protected by Athene, and the city is named in her honor.
The increasingly sorry state of almost all of the former Athens 2004 venues in the wake of the Games has been well-publicized.
Athens parlayed its fleet into a maritime empire, blockading and starving any subjects that defied her will.
That summer, Hamilton won the gold medal in the time trial at the Athens Olympics.
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But the acropolis has a long and tumultuous history surrounding the brief ascendance of classical Athens.
The acropolis Museum opened in Athens last weekend amid controversy that Greek officials did everything possible to stir up.
Other Greek cities, not least Athens, were dependent on unfree labour for creating and maintaining a politicised and cultured style of communal life.
Among these challengers is Olga Palagia, professor of archaeology at the University of Athens.
The United States will be red-hot favourites to successfully defend their gold medal in Athens as they call on a who's who of the best in the game.
The most accomplished female double trap shooter in the world, Kim is a favorite to win the gold medal in Athens and is the U.S. only woman competitor in the event.
Poseidon and Athena were vying for control of Athens, and having consulted an oracle he advised that every Athenian should vote for their preference.
Ancient Athens emerged from tyranny for about 100 years and then self-destructed and the Roman republic was never more than an oligarchy until it too became an empire.
He could have skipped the 200 free and swam the 200 backstroke, which he qualified for at the Olympic Trials but decided not to swim here in Athens.
Several regions or cities with high levels of atmospheric pollution, such as Athens in Greece and parts of China, generally experienced low levels of asthma.
His work as a BBC athletics commentator and pundit began with the 2004 Athens Olympics.
Attalus was at that time corresponding with Demosthenes, regarding the possibility of defecting to Athens.
News of Philip's death roused many states into revolt, including Thebes, Athens, Thessaly, and the Thracian tribes north of Macedon.
The end of Thebes cowed Athens, leaving all of Greece temporarily at peace.
The battle was fought near Athens, Greece, in the straits between Piraeus and Salamis.
It is estimated that in Athens, the majority of citizens owned at least one slave.
In Classical Athens in about 328 BC, the corresponding wage could buy about 24 pounds of wheat.
The reputation of its medieval schools gave the city the reputation as a new Athens.
Pliny describes the haunting of a house in Athens, which was bought by the Stoic philosopher Athenodorus, who lived about 100 years before Pliny.
In Athens, Evans bought as many seal-stones and engraved gems as he could find.
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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.
The posh locals will doubtless be glued to some yachtie going for gold in Athens.
You're getting competition from Athens now that President brand has introduced a spread-able feta cheese.
The best result was shown by Ulan Moldodosov in 2004 in Athens who took the final 10th place.
It was the first capital of Greece, before Athens, and faces the Argolic Gulf.
Aspasia's ancestors were the Phanariotes, who settled in Athens in the early nineteenth century.
Antony, who studied as a young man in Athens, remained a Philhellene for his entire life.
Klik is the most stylish drinking and dining option for anyone spending time in Kifissia, the upmarket suburb north of Athens.
Also sailing from Athens, the Classical Greece itinerary includes stops at Crete, Kythira and Hydra, and is priced from PS2,114pp.
Olympic Air announced on Monday the launch of three Public Service Obligation routes between Athens and Kythira, Karpathos and Skiathos.
The quake's epicentre was located about 125 miles south of Athens near the island of Kythira.
One of Windstar Cruises' five repositionings will take the Wind Spirit from Rome to Athens for a season in the Greek Isles.
In Athens, it was business as usual in Syntagma Square, the scene of overnight revelry that lasted into the small hours.
After that, it was on to the Corinth Canal and Athens, where he saw the world-renowned evzones, as well as a die-hard Python fan.
Their journey to Athens starts mainly from Turkey passing through the Greek islands including Lesvos, Chios, Samos, or Kos.
Close to the centre of Athens, Greece, outside the National Garden, is a statue depicting Greece in the form of a woman crowning Byron.
In Athens, for instance, women could not vote or hold office and were legally and socially dependent on a male relative.
Holst enjoyed his time in Salonica, from where he was able to visit Athens, which greatly impressed him.
Brookes died just four months before the 1896 Summer Olympics held in Athens in 1896, organised by Coubertin's International Olympic Committee.
Zappas sponsored the first Olympic Games in 1859, which was held in an Athens city square.
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This feeling was shared by many of the athletes, who even demanded that Athens be the permanent Olympic host city.
Lagat competed for Kenya in the 2004 Athens Olympics even though he had already become a United States citizen.
Lagat said he started the citizenship process in late 2003 and did not expect to become an American citizen until after the Athens games.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, the gold, silver, and bronze medal winners were also given olive wreaths.
The other cities hosting the Summer Games twice are Los Angeles, Paris and Athens.
The 1906 Athens games were the first of an alternating series of games to be held in Athens, but the series failed to materialize.
The Athens Games witnessed all 202 NOCs participate with over 11,000 participants.
He was Britain's sole representative in boxing at the Athens Games, winning a silver medal at the age of 17 in the lightweight boxing category.
In 594 BC Solon, the ruler of Athens, created the new Solonian Constitution.
In 508 BC, Cleisthenes instituted the world's first democratic system of government in Athens.
By this time, 80 Squadron had been transferred to the Greek campaign and based at Eleusina, near Athens.
In May, as the Germans were pressing on Athens, Dahl was evacuated to Egypt.
In 1701, he anonymously published the political pamphlet A Discourse on the Contests and Dissentions in Athens and Rome.
She then pulled out of performances in Istanbul and Athens which had been scheduled for the following week.
Athena became the patron goddess of the city of Athens after a competition with Poseidon.
Athens at its height was a significant sea power, at one point defeating the Persian fleet at Salamis Island in a sea battle.
In the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, East Timorese athletes participated in athletics, weightlifting and boxing.
The foundation myth of Ephesus has the city being built over the site where prince Androklos of Athens killed a boar.
Socrates lived in Athens during the great plague which has made so much noise in all ages.
Philip then returned to Elatea, sending a final offer of peace to Athens and Thebes, who both rejected it.
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The Parthenon in Athens is an octostyle, but most large Greek temples are hexastyle.
Catherine's British Embassy School in Athens, she returned to Wales two years later.
The junta in Athens, and then the Sampson regime in Cyprus fell from power.
Another important motorway is the Attiki Odos motorway, the main beltway of the Athens Metropolitan area.
The island is well served by ferries, mostly from Athens, by ferry companies such as Minoan Lines and ANEK Lines.
But the defeat on land at Thermopylae forced a Greek withdrawal, and Athens evacuated its population to nearby Salamis Island.
Mihail Tositsas donated large amounts for the building of the Athens University, the Amalio Orphanage and the Athens Polytechnic.
His wife Eleni Tositsa donated the land for the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Yet it was in Athens where his most formidable contemporary critics could be found.
Eventually, Thucydides and Herodotus became close enough for both to be interred in Thucydides' tomb in Athens.
Athens suffered a land and agrarian crisis in the late 7th century BC, again resulting in civil strife.
In the second half of the 6th century BC, Athens fell under the tyranny of Peisistratos and then of his sons Hippias and Hipparchos.
The advent of the democracy cured many of the ills of Athens and led to a 'golden age' for the Athenians.
Darius did not forget that the Athenians had assisted the Ionian revolt, however, and in 490 he assembled an armada to conquer Athens.
While Athenian activity against the Persian empire was ending, however, conflict between Sparta and Athens was increasing.
In the 450s, Athens took control of Boeotia, and won victories over Aegina and Corinth.
However, Athens failed to win a decisive victory, and in 447 lost Boeotia again.
In 418 an alliance between Athens and Argos was defeated by Sparta at Mantinea.
Athens and other Greek cities revolted in 88 BC, and the peninsula was crushed by the Roman general Sulla.
In Athens, the population was divided into four social classes based on wealth.
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Between forty and eighty per cent of the population of Classical Athens were slaves.
In Athens some older youths attended academy for the finer disciplines such as culture, sciences, music, and the arts.
The Hellenistic period saw the literary epicentre of the Greek world move from Athens, where it had been in the classical period, to Alexandria.
The original mechanism is displayed in the Bronze collection of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, accompanied by a replica.
In some Herodotus manuscripts, the name of the runner between Athens and Sparta is given as Philippides.
Athens was the most powerful and developed city, and a cradle of learning from the time of Pericles.
Posidonius completed his higher education in Athens, where he was a student of the aged Panaetius, the head of the Stoic school.
In Athens and rural areas, paganism is attested well into the sixth century AD and even later.
Although Ibrahim was defeated in Mani, he had succeeded in suppressing most of the revolt in the Peloponnese and Athens had been retaken.
One of his first actions was to transfer the capital from Nafplio to Athens.
The country adopted the euro in 2001 and successfully hosted the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens.
The Capodistrian University of Athens is the oldest university in the eastern Mediterranean.
After the establishment of the Greek Kingdom, the architecture of Athens and other cities was mostly influenced by the Neoclassical architecture.
The most successful are Olympiacos, Panathinaikos, AEK Athens, PAOK, Larissa and Aris Thessaloniki.
Notable festivals, beyond the religious fests, include Patras Carnival, Athens Festival and various local wine festivals.
For brief periods the Crown of Aragon also controlled Montpellier, Provence, Corsica, and the twin Duchy of Athens and Neopatras in Latin Greece.
They went on to occupy the city of Elatea, only a few days' march from both Athens and Thebes.
Both Athens and Philip sent embassies to win Thebes' favour, but Athens won the contest.
Greece's industrialists union SEV holds its annual meeting, at the Athens Megaron Concert Hall.
The library, located within the Athens Megaron complex, occupies 12,500 square feet of space and has two reading rooms.
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State carrier Cyprus Airways said yesterday that its flights to and from Athens, Thessaloniki, Rhodes and Heraklion were cancelled for today.
The class was split into teams representing the ancient states of Sparta, Athens, Thessalonica, Thebes and Corinth.
But hedge funds may opt out, hoping that Athens will let them get away with it to save itself political embarassment.
Philip, through his victory at Chaeronea, had secured control over Thebes and Athens.
Neighboring city-state Athens was more haphazard about its infanticide.
The compilation of several published and unpublished studies of myxomycete records from Athens County resulted in a total of 52 species.
Classicism for him is not an evaluative concept but a description of the function of art in the time surrounding Periclean Athens.
To assuage their cultural anxiety, Romans lost no opportunity to badmouth the inheritors of Periclean Athens.
On the other hand, commercial states from Periclean Athens to Victorian Britain enjoyed both power and plenty.
In the men's trap shooting competition in Athens, Derek Burnett moved into a strong position.
Perhaps we have not been sufficiently aware that talking about access and its implications in Scandinavia is like bringing owls to Athens.
The greater Dionysia were held at Athens in March or April, and were celebrated with elaborate performances of tragedies and comedies.
The Athenian hoplites who routed the Persian invaders on the field of Marathon in 490 created one of the great 'myths' of Athens.
At the age of seventeen or eighteen, Aristotle moved to Athens to continue his education at Plato's Academy.
Third, the definitive edition of Aristotle's texts seems to have been made in Athens some fifty years before Andronicus supposedly compiled his.
The programme of the first modern Olympiad in Athens in 1896 was almost identical to that of the Liverpool Olympics.
The most notable of which is Steve Parry who claimed a bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics in the 200m butterfly.
Instead the delegates held their meeting on a cruise ship traveling between Marseille and Athens.
It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta, the former queen of the Amazons.
In a parallel plot line, Oberon, king of the fairies, and Titania, his queen, have come to the forest outside Athens.
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In Athens, Theseus, Hippolyta and the lovers watch the six workmen perform Pyramus and Thisbe.
Tennenhouse contrasts the patriarchal rule of Theseus in Athens with that of Oberon in the carnivalistic Faerie world.
The disorder in the land of the fairies completely opposes the world of Athens.
In 1973, Melvin Goldstein argued that the lovers can not simply return to Athens and wed.
Triple Athens medal list Bradley Wiggins made a steady if unremarkable start to the Tour Down Under, finishing in the bunch after a hell-for-leather opening day in Adelaide.
In 1881, Brookes was again in contact with the Greek government, when he tried to instigate an Olympic Games in Athens open to international competitors.
Each of them had brought the surrounding rural areas and smaller towns under their control, and Athens and Corinth had become major maritime and mercantile powers as well.
Importantly, sales were driven by robust demand for our core product, as well as positive consumer reaction to our new styles, such as Athens, Off-Road and Scutes.
Dudek's problems in Athens on Tuesday are believed to have forced Benitez to wrestle with the possibility of giving Kirkland a first competitive start under his managership.
Controlling as they did the best route to Athens, the Athenians and their Plataean allies decided, rather than attack a foe that vastly outnumbered them, to wait.
The major Mycenaean cities were Mycenae and Tiryns in Argolis, Pylos in Messenia, Athens in Attica, Thebes and Orchomenus in Boeotia, and Iolkos in Thessaly.
Callas was born on 2 December 1923, in New York and made her debut in Boccaccio for the Royal Opera of Athens, and took her first major role in Tosca.
Customers can now take advantage of the domestic flights operated within Greece by Cyprus Airways, offering easy connections via Athens, between Paris, Rhodes and Heraklion.
One would gather that this is indeed, creative accounting at its best, to justify new destinations like Athens, that was closed down previously due to lack of bums on seats.
Newsnight's Paul Mason sent a brilliant despatch from Athens, containing angry words from middle-aged furniture-maker Sakis Grasso, which had a universal resonance.
A study at Athens Medical School says it must be boiled grounds like those drunk on the island Ikaria, where inhabitants live longer than anywhere else.
Gathered in Propylaea Square in Athens, hundreds of people walked to Syntagma Square for Alexios Grigoropoulos, who was fifteen when he was killed by the police.
During the development of the project Mr Singh brought on board the synchronised swimmer Heba Abdel Gawaad, who competed in the Olympic Games in Sydney and Athens.
Amir Khan, the silver medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, has become a cultural icon in the UK with TV audiences of up to 8 million watching him fight.
She worked for the Department for more than 30 years, at posts in Seoul, Moscow, Athens, Nairobi, Manila, Djakarta, Tel Aviv, Cape Town, Beijing, Tokyo and Prague.

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