Athens

What this place is

• School or library — the schools of rhetoric and philosophy where Basil and Gregory of Nazianzus studied together under Himerius and Prohaeresius

Who is recorded here

• Paul the Apostle ministry · AD 50
• Dionysius the Areopagite birth · AD 100
• Dionysius the Areopagite death · AD 100
• Saint Publius death · AD 112
• Quadratus of Athens death · AD 129
• Aristides of Athens death · AD 134
• Aristides of Athens birth · AD 150
• Clement of Alexandria birth · AD 150
• Himerius death · AD 390
• Proclus death · AD 485
• Marinus of Neapolis death · AD 500
• Isidore of Alexandria death · AD 520
• Irene of Athens birth · AD 752
• Athenagoras of Athens birth
• Athenagoras of Athens death
• Basil of Caesarea ministry
• Hyginus birth
• Paul the Apostle residence
• Porphyry ministry
• Quadratus of Athens residence
• Quartus death
• Quartus birth

What happened here

• Paul before the Areopagus AD 51
• The apologies presented to Hadrian AD 125
• The Embassy for the Christians AD 176

In art

• The bombardment of the Parthenon on 26 September 1687 — Verneda Giacomo Milheau (1600)
• Dispute between Athena and Poseidon — Noël Hallé (1748)
• File:O Opsokomistis - Spyridon Mantzakos.JPG — Spiridon Mantzakos (1800)
• Study and Genius unveil ancient Egypt to Greece — François-Édouard Picot (1826)
• View of Athens from the south-west — Martinus Rørbye (1836)

About the place

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland.

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