
	Where results make sense

Topic: Acharnae

Related Topics

Menidi

The Acharnians

Glyka Nera

Melissia

Palaio Faliro

Gerakas

Psychiko

Kifissia

Zefyri

Agia Paraskevi

List of municipalities of Attica

Vrilissia

Boeotia

Aristophanes

List of postal codes in Greece

In the News (Fri 27 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Acharnae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Acharnae was the largest deme of ancient Attica; it was located in the northwest part of the Attic plain, south of Mt. Parnes in the general viscinity of the modern suburbs of Acharnes and Ano Liosia, about 10 km due north of Athens.
		The Acharnians chiefly grew cereals, grapes, and olives, although Aristophanes in his comedy The Acharnians caricatures them as charcoal-burners.
		A tholos tomb at Menidi suggests Acharnae was once an independent entity; a temple to Ares was later moved to the Athenian Agora.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Acharnae (132 words)

	Thucydides-Passages
		The situation appeared to be convenient, and the Acharnians, being a considerable section of the city and furnishing three thousand hoplites, were likely to be impatient at the destruction of their property, and would communicate to the whole people a desire to fight.
		But when they saw the army in the neighbourhood of Acharnae, and barely seven miles from the city, they felt the presence of the invader to be intolerable.
		The devastation of their country before their eyes, which the younger men had never seen at all, nor the elder except in the Persian invasion, naturally appeared to them a horrible thing, and the whole people, the young men especially, were anxious to go forth and put a stop to it.
	classicpersuasion.org /pw/thucydides/thucydides-passages.php?pleaseget=2.19-23 (996 words)

	Gutenkarte » The History of the Peloponnesian War » Acharnae
		But after he had assaulted Oenoe, and every possible attempt to take it had failed, as no herald came from Athens, he at last broke up his camp and invaded Attica.
		This was about eighty days after the Theban attempt upon Plataea, just in the middle of summer, when the corn was ripe, and Archidamus, son of Zeuxis, king of Lacedaemon, was in command.
		Encamping in Eleusis and the Thriasian plain, they began their ravages, and putting to flight some Athenian horse at a place called Rheiti, or the Brooks, they then advanced, keeping Mount Aegaleus on their right, through Cropia, until they reached Acharnae, the largest of the Athenian demes or townships.
	www.gutenkarte.org /place/7142/13276 (140 words)

	Greek Travel Log - Temple of Ares (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The reestablishment of the classical temple in the Agora has been dated from ceramic evidence in its foundations to the end of the first century B.C.E. Unlike the Odeion of Agrippa, the Temple of Ares was not a new construction.
		It was a fifth-century Doric peripteral temple, possibly from Acharnae, that was taken apart piece by piece and moved to the Agora near the new Odeion.
		The temple is very similar in style and plan to the Hephaisteion, which stood behind it on the Colonos Agoraios, the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion, and the Temple of Nemesis at Rhamnous.
	www.missouri.edu /~daw262/ares.html (469 words)

	Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden Bough
		Again, the ivy and the fig-tree were especially associated with him.
		In the Attic township of Acharnae there was a Dionysus Ivy; at Lacedaemon there was a Fig Dionysus; and in Naxos, where figs were called meilicha, there was a Dionysus Meilichios, the face of whose image was made of fig-wood.
		Further, there are indications, few but significant, that Dionysus was conceived as a deity of agriculture and the corn.
	www.bartleby.com /196/pages/page387.html (424 words)

	cciv243.Neara.one.html
		These men came together in the temple, and after hearing the facts from both parties and from the woman herself gave their decision, and these men acceded to it.
		Satyrus of Alopece, Saurias of Lamptrae, and Diogeiton of Acharnae depose that, having been appointed arbitrators in the matter of Neaera, the present defendant, they brought about a reconciliation between Stephanus and Phrynion, and that the terms on which the reconciliation was brought about were such as Apollodorus produces.
		They have reconciled Phrynion and Stephanus on the following terms: that each of them shall keep Neaera at his house and have her at his disposal for an equal number of days in the month, unless they shall themselves agree upon some other arrangement.
	mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu /Images2/cciv243.Neaera.two.html (2315 words)

	History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
		The reason why Archidamus remained in order of battle at Acharnae during this incursion, instead of descending into the plain, is said to have been this.
		He hoped that the Athenians might possibly be tempted by the multitude of their youth and the unprecedented efficiency of their service to come out to battle and attempt to stop the devastation of their lands.
		He thought the place itself a good position for encamping; and it seemed likely that such an important part of the state as the three thousand heavy infantry of the Acharnians would refuse to submit to the ruin of their property, and would force a battle on the rest of the citizens.
	4literature.net /Thucydides/History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War/28.html (1249 words)

	Parnitha - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The mountain also has many species of birds.
		The mountaintop is located 18 km N of Acharnae and about 30 km N of Athens.
		The view of southern Viotia and western east-central Athens can be seen.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Parnitha (393 words)

	A Smaller History of Greece - Chapter XI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		They obeyed his injunctions with reluctance, for the Attic population had from the earliest times been strongly attached to a rural life.
		Archidamus advanced as far as Acharnae, a flourishing Attic borough situated only about seven miles from Athens.
		Here he encamped on a rising ground within sight of the metropolis, and began to lay waste the country around, expecting probably by that means to provoke the Athenians to battle.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/european/ASmallerHistoryofGreece/chap11.html (4301 words)

	ANISTORITON: History Essays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		From there, they continued to devastate the area, hoping to drive the Athenians out of their walls and to provoke social disunity among them.
		The Athenians, despite their fury and frustration, did not come out since the Periclean policy of avoiding major engagements finally prevailed; yet, cavalry squadrons were constantly being sent out in order to harass the enemy and protect the areas near the city.
		Realising that the enemy was not going to offer a pitched battle, Archidamus took his army from Acharnae and laid waste some demes between mount Parnes and mount Brilessus.
	www.anistor.co.hol.gr /english/enback/e981.htm (1646 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Of pleas there can be only two kinds, the dilatory, and those to the action.
		The following is an instance of the simplest form of indictment and plea:—• " Apollodorus,, the son of Pasion of Acharnae, against Stephanas, son of Menecles of Acharnae, for perjury.
		Ste-phanus bore false witness against me, when he gave in evidence the matters in the tablets.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-dgra/0106.html (899 words)

	History of Ancient Athens - Periklean Age
		He then marched towards Eleusis, where he arrived at the middle of June 431 BC.
		After ravaging the Thracian plain, he encamped at Acharnae, seven miles from Athens.
		In the meantime the Athenians had collected the population within the walls and had sent all the animals to Euboea.
	www.sikyon.com /Athens/ahist_eg03.html (6045 words)

	The Acharnians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Indignant, Dicaeopolis decides to form a private truce with the enemy for only himself and his family.
		A chorus of Acharnian charcoal peddlers wants to stone Dicaeopolis to death because of this; as residents of Acharnae, they suffered tremendously in the Peloponnesian War and were famous for their bellicose nature.
		Dicaeopolis holds them off by holding a bucket of charcoal hostage, threatening to dismember it if they attack.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Acharnians (527 words)

	Queen's University, Department of Classics - CLST 101 : Introduction to Greek and Roman Civilizations
		Dicaeopolis does his best to keep the Acharnians at bay with argument, but this only angers them more; suddenly he turns the tables on them by producing a charcoal-basket which he threatens to "kill" if they harm him.
		Charcoal-burning is one of the characteristic activities of Acharnae, so that the basket is the "fellow-demesman" of the Chorus; the threat to kill it is a parody of Euripides' Telephus in which Telephus secured a hearing by seizing the infant son of Agamemnon as a hostage.
		Now the chorus has to agree to hear Dicaeopolis' case, but first he wants to dress up as a beggar, to exploit their compassion.
	www.queensu.ca /classics/clst312/clst312sup2.htm (14368 words)

	Acharnae, Greece - Location on world map, coordinates and short facts
		Acharnae, Greece - Location on world map, coordinates and short facts
		/ Explore / Greece / Locations / Acharnae
		Maps and coordinates for Acharnae, Greece are approximative and not valid for navigation.
	www.traveljournals.net /explore/greece/map/m1190642/acharnae.html (67 words)

	Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Repair work was also done on the temples of Athena at Sunium and of Artemis at Brauron, and additions were made to these.
		The grandiose buildings on the Acropolis itself, and the four great temples - to Hephaestus at Colonos-in-the-Agora, to Poseidon at Sunium, to Nemesis at Rhamnus, to Ares at Acharnae - were important
		This was when the south wall of the Acropolis was completed, the temple of Artemis Agrotera was put up on the left bank of the Ilissos, and there were building works to the Lyceum (this has recently been excavated north of Syntagma Square - the gymnasium where Aristotle was to teach a hundred years later.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /AncGreece/architecture1.htm (1718 words)

	The Acharnians by Aristophanes - Full Text Free Book
		Acharnae, one of the agricultural demes and one which had especially
		f[1] The deme of Acharnae was largely inhabited by charcoal-burners,
		f[1] A mountain in Attica, in the neighbourhood of Acharnae.
	www.fullbooks.com /The-Acharnians.html (9635 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 98.12.13
		According to Diodorus (14.32.5-6), while Thrasybulus was at Phyle he refused to join the Thirty when they offered him the opportunity.
		questions the account: "The offer to Thrasybulus of a seat in the Thirty is barely possible on Diodorus' chronology, but unless it was made well before the battle of Acharnae, impossible on Xenophon's.
		It sounds like a slander made later by a political rival, one that was credulously picked up by Ephorus" (p.
	tech1.dccs.upenn.edu /bmcr/1998/1998-12-13-beta.html (2432 words)

	Gutenkarte » The History of the Peloponnesian War » Parnes
		Gutenkarte » The History of the Peloponnesian War » Parnes
		In the meantime the Peloponnesians, as the Athenians did not come out to engage them, broke up from Acharnae and ravaged some of the demes between Mount Parnes and Brilessus.
		While they were in Attica the Athenians sent off the hundred ships which they had been preparing round Peloponnese, with a thousand heavy infantry and four hundred archers on board, under the command of Carcinus, son of Xenotimus, Proteas, son of Epicles, and Socrates, son of Antigenes.
	www.gutenkarte.org /place/7142/13277 (510 words)

	Aristides by Plutarch
		Read, write, or comment on essays about Aristides
		Therefore, of many that were concerned, he apprehended eight only, two of whom, who were first proceeded against and most guilty, Aeschines of Lampra and Agesias of Acharnae, made their escape out of the camp.
		The rest he dismissed; giving opportunity to such as thought themselves concealed to take courage and repent; intimating that they had in the war a great tribunal, where they might clear their guilt by manifesting their sincere and good intentions towards their country.
	www.4literature.net /Plutarch/Aristides/5.html (750 words)

	Parnitha Elevation Latitude Longitude Athens Length Greek Katharevousa Acharnae Penteli Viotia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Parnitha Elevation Latitude Longitude Athens Length Greek Katharevousa Acharnae Penteli Viotia
		To download this article in pdf format, just click here: Parnitha.pdf
		JavaScript based drop down DHTML menu generated by NavStudio.
	en.powerwissen.com /c3\|\|SL\|\|RRwi3qZjWtu0Jk4qLjA==_Parnitha.html (362 words)

	Hellenica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This corps consisted of the Lacedaemonian guards, or nearly all of them, and two divisions of horse.[3] They encamped in a wild and broken district, and the round of their duties commenced.
		[1] "A strong fortress (the remains of which still exist) commanding the narrow pass across Mount Parnes, through which runs the direct road from Thebes to Athens, past Acharnae.
		The precipitous rock on which it stands can only be approached by a ridge on the eastern side.
	www.brainfly.net /html/books/brn0191.htm (19958 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)