Athens

This source names Athens directly: "for an official place of worship in Athens."

This source names Athens directly: "the Rizarios Ecclesiastical School in Athens."

This source names Athens directly: "before establishing his own school in Athens, the Lyceum, around 335 BCE."

Athena was the city's patron deity, honored on the Acropolis and at the Panathenaia.

This source names Athens directly: "she contests Poseidon for patronage of Athens and wins by the gift of the olive tree, and her myths run largely to aiding favored heroes at moments of crisis: guiding Perseus against Medusa..."

This source names Athens directly: "Sakellarides, born in Litochoro in 1854 and dead in Athens in 1938, built his reputation as a cantor whose flexible tenor voice drew large congregations to central Athenian churches, including the..."

This source names Athens directly: "autocephaly, naming the Archbishop of Athens permanent head of its Holy Synod."

This source names Athens directly: "Diogenes reportedly lived in a large storage jar in Athens, owned almost nothing, and used public acts of provocation to expose the vanity and hypocrisy he saw in conventional life."

This source names Athens directly: "of binding curses recovered from Athens and Attica with the same rigor the Inscriptiones Graecae project applied to public inscriptions."

This source names Athens directly: "He lived by his own account in a large ceramic jar, wandered Athens by daylight carrying a lit lamp in search of "an honest man," and, when Alexander the Great offered him any favour, is said to..."

This source names Athens directly: "his birthplace Sinope, his activity in Athens and Corinth, and his manner of death, on which ancient accounts conflict and modern scholars favour old age."

Eleusis, about twenty kilometers from Athens, held the Mysteries of Demeter and Persephone, a separate strand of Athenian religious life administered from the city.

This source names Athens directly: "a school known as the Garden in Athens around 307 BCE, admitting women and slaves alongside citizens in a community organized around friendship and shared living."

This source names Athens directly: "of Demeter with Pig," from Greece, Athens, 400s BCE, showing the grain goddess holding a piglet, the animal sacrificed in her honor at the Thesmophoria festival."

This source names Athens directly: "a terracotta figurine from Greece, Athens, 400s BCE."

This source names Athens directly: "at the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, and confirming the depicted figures as Demeter, Triptolemus and Persephone."

This source names Athens directly: "Persephone celebrated at Eleusis near Athens, responsible for showing initiates the cult's central sacred objects and revealing what tradition holds was the Mysteries' climactic secret vision."

This source names Athens directly: "island and among island migrants in Athens, examining tamata, the small metal votive plaques offered to icons, alongside the formal theology of icon veneration."

This source names Athens directly: "was priestess of Athena Polias at Athens for sixty-four years, a tenure placed by the length of her recorded service at roughly 430 to 365 BCE."

The Temple of Athena Nike stood on the Athenian Acropolis, its cult statue said to have been made deliberately without wings so Victory could never fly away.

This source names Athens directly: "Styled after Raphael's School of Athens, with the painting's Greek key border replaced by the Adinkra symbol wawa aba, it depicts a Yoruba tale of betrayal among the orishas: Oya caught between Ogun..."

This source names Athens directly: "styled after Raphael's School of Athens."

After Pan aided the Athenians at Marathon, the city established his cult in a cave on the northwest slope of the Acropolis with annual torch races.

This source names Athens directly: "was the great civic festival of Athens honouring its patron goddess Athena, celebrated annually with a larger Great Panathenaea every fourth year."

Paul the Apostle preached to the Areopagus council below the Acropolis, per Acts 17.

This source names Athens directly: "founded by Plato, who taught in Athens from around 387 BCE at a gymnasium sacred to the hero Academus, giving the school its common name, the Academy."

This source names Athens directly: "Polytheism and Society at Athens, Robert Parker's 2005 study from Oxford University Press, is a major scholarly account of how Athenian civic and religious life were intertwined."

This source names Athens directly: "mostly to contests: for patronage of Athens against Athena, a contest he loses, and for control of the sea itself against rivals whose challenges he answers with storms."

This source names Athens directly: "to Disney's Hercules when it opened in Athens in December 1997 under a retitled local release."

This source names Athens directly: "Socrates Against Athens: Philosophy on Trial, James Colaiaco's 2001 study from Routledge, is a dedicated scholarly examination of the 399 BCE trial of Socrates, situating it within Athenian..."

This source names Athens directly: "philosophical school founded at Athens by Zeno of Citium around 300 BCE, named for the Stoa Poikile, the painted colonnade where he first taught."

This source names Athens directly: "at the Theatre of Dionysus in Athens in 405 BCE, staged posthumously after his own death as part of a tetralogy that also included Iphigeneia at Aulis and Alcmaeon in Corinth, and which won first..."

This source names Athens directly: "which the combined Greek fleet, with Athens supplying the largest contingent under Themistocles's effective command, destroyed the numerically superior fleet of the Persian king Xerxes I."

This source names Athens directly: "1511 on the wall facing The School of Athens in the room now known as the Stanza della Segnatura, then Pope Julius II's private library, within the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican."

This source names Athens directly: "A June 2026 Athens News (en.rua.gr) report that the EU's ESPA program allocated 5.3 million euros, signed by Central Macedonia regional governor Athena Aidona, for seven restoration projects across..."

This source names Athens directly: "the evacuation and burning of Athens, the decisive Greek naval victory at Salamis and the land victory at Plataea the following year, after which fighting continued intermittently in the Aegean and..."

This source names Athens directly: "BCE scholar Apollodorus of Athens, a distinction this record states rather than repeating the traditional attribution as settled fact."

This source names Athens directly: "Athens' chief civic festival, honoring Athena Polias as patron of the city with sacrifice, athletic and musical contests, and a procession that carried a newly woven peplos to her ancient cult..."

This source names Athens directly: "of the cella wall of the Parthenon in Athens."

This source names Athens directly: "on Raphael's fresco "The School of Athens" (1509-1511), Stanza della Segnatura, Apostolic Palace, Vatican, identifying an elder Plato beside a younger Aristotle at centre, Socrates immediately..."

This source names Athens directly: "own official page for "The School of Athens" in the Room of the Segnatura, naming Plato pointing upward holding his Timaeus, Aristotle beside him with his Ethics, Pythagoras explaining the..."

This source names Athens directly: "directly, the decision that gave Athens the navy it needed within a few years."

This source names Athens directly: "merchant stock who founded Stoicism at Athens."

Athens lies within the modern Hellenic Republic and is its capital.

Athens was the leading cult center of Athena Polias and host of the Panathenaic festival.

Paul the Apostle's Areopagus sermon, recorded in Acts, marks an early moment of Christian mission in the city.