Sample Sentences for
ancient Athens
(auto-selected)

Show 3 more sentences
  • •
    In ancient Athens such young men led armies, their swords up front, not behind, if only to prove to the troops that they would sacrifice with the lowliest of them, for the lowliest were under their commands, the commands of the finest.†  (source)
  • •
    Not only does the Bible advocate stoning girls to death when they fail to bleed on their wedding sheets, but Solon, the great lawgiver of ancient Athens, prescribed that no Athenian could be sold into slavery save a woman who lost her virginity before marriage.†  (source)
  • •
    No one stuck up their hands and there was no voting, but she thought, I wonder if it was like this in ancient Athens?†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 2 word variations
  • •
    He was young — perhaps from twenty-eight to thirty — tall, slender; his face riveted the eye; it was like a Greek face, very pure in outline: quite a straight, classic nose; quite an Athenian mouth and chin.†  (source)
  • •
    And, gazing in the direction of the bay, Dr. Rieux called to mind the plaguefires of which Lucretius tells, which the Athenians kindled on the seashore.†  (source)
  • •
    Herodotus, in the Persian War, tells a story of how Croesus, the richest and most-favored king of his time, asked Solon the Athenian a leading question.†  (source)
  • •
    Athenians gave Draco the power to reform its government and laws.†  (source)
  • •
    At Seattle's Town Hall, which sits atop the city's First Hill neighborhood like an Athenian temple, Mortenson arrived fifteen minutes late, wearing a shalwar kamiz.†  (source)
  • •
    The pageantry of his disillusion took shape in a world-old procession of Prophets, Athenians, Martyrs, Saints, Scientists, Don Juans, Jesuits, Puritans, Fausts, Poets, Pacifists; like costumed alumni at a college reunion they streamed before him as their dreams, personalities, and creeds had in turn thrown colored lights on his soul; each had tried to express the glory of life and the tremendous significance of man; each had boasted of synchronizing what had gone before into his own rickety generalities; each had depended after all on the set stage and the convention of the theatre, which is that man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.†  (source)
  • •
    He ushered the NYPD into what one senior police official later called "our Athenian period," in which new ideas were given weight over calcified practices.†  (source)
  • •
    The old "mansions" along Ninth Street, S. E., like aged dandies in filthy linen; wooden castles turned into boarding-houses, with muddy walks and rusty hedges, jostled by fast-intruding garages, cheap apartment-houses, and fruit-stands conducted by bland, sleek Athenians.†  (source)
  • •
    You see, Sophocles is writing this not only at the end of his life but at the end of the fifth century B.C., which is to say at the end of the period of Athenian greatness.†  (source)
  • •
    Great Aias led twelve ships from Sálamis and beached them where Athenians formed for battle.†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)