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41Athens — The capital of Attica, the most celebrated city of the ancient world, the seat of Greek literature and art during the golden period of Grecian history. Its inhabitants were fond of novelty (Acts 17:21), and were remarkable for their zeal in… …
42ORESTES — the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and brother of Electra and Iphigenia, who killed his mother to avenge the murder by her of his father and went mad afterwards, but was acquitted by the Areopagus and became king of Argos and Lacedæmon;… …
43ancient Greek civilization — ▪ historical region, Eurasia Introduction the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended in about 1200 BC, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific… …
44Classical Athens — Athens Ἀθῆναι ← 510 BC–322 BC …
45Solon — (ancient Greek: Polytonic|Σόλων, c. 638 BC ndash;558 BC) was an Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and Lyric poet. He is remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, economic and moral decline in archaic Athens. His reforms… …
46Ordo Templi Orientis — Thelema Category:Thelema Core topics The Book of the Law Aleister Crowley True Will · …
47Areopagite — noun /æɹiːˈɒpəɡaɪt/ A member of the ancient Athenian conciliary court of the Areopagus. Each year the Athenians elected ten archons from among the rich and noble, and at the end of that year the ten graduated into the Areopagus, where they served …
48Capital Punishment (Death Penalty) — Capital Punishment † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Capital Punishment The infliction by due legal process of the penalty of death as a punishment for crime. The Latins use the word capitalis (from caput, head) to describe that which… …
49Ephialtes — (Greek: polytonic|Ἐφιάλτης, Ephialtēs ) was an ancient Athenian politician and an early leader of the democratic movement there. In the late 460s BC, he oversaw reforms that diminished the power of the Areopagus, a traditional bastion of… …
50Ares — This article is about the ancient Greek god. For other uses, see Ares (disambiguation). Ares …
