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The Parthenon is the best-known temple of ancient Athens.ancient Athens = the center of the intellectual and artistic developments that created the Golden Age of Greece (5th century BC)
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The video was coming to the part where ancient Athens suddenly rises from the ruins.† (source)
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It could have been a modest abode in almost any age—ancient Athens, medieval France, the farmlands of Iowa.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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He demanded, as payment for his son, that the Athenian king send seven youths and seven maids to feed the monster, or else Crete's mighty navy would bring war.† (source)Athenian = of Athens during the Golden Age of Greece (5th century BC)
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Athenians gave Draco the power to reform its government and laws.† (source)Athenians = people of Athens during the Golden Age of Greece (5th century BC)
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Theseus took her aboard with him from Krete for the terraced land of ancient Athens; but he had no joy of her.† (source)ancient Athens = the center of the intellectual and artistic developments that created the Golden Age of Greece (5th century BC)
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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)Athenian = of Athens during the Golden Age of Greece (5th century BC)
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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)Athenians = people of Athens during the Golden Age of Greece (5th century BC)
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There are no records suggesting that Athenian practice allowed defendants to speak after sentencing.† (source)Athenian = of Athens during the Golden Age of Greece (5th century BC)
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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)Athenians = people of Athens during the Golden Age of Greece (5th century BC)
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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)Athenian = of Athens during the Golden Age of Greece (5th century BC)
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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)Athenians = people of Athens during the Golden Age of Greece (5th century BC)
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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)Athenian = of Athens during the Golden Age of Greece (5th century BC)
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