Their Acropolis is a tourist's must

Usage examples of athenians.

Although we Persians are accused of heavy drinking because of our ritual use of haoma, I have never seen a Persian as drunk as certain Athenians and, to be fair, no Athenian could ever be as drunk as a Spartan.

Besides, even if the treaty were discussable, the Athenians are still capable of finding Anaxagoras guilty of medism, or of anything else that strikes their fancy.

The throaty syllables struck my ears like those potsherds on which Athenians periodically write the names of anyone who had happened to offend or bore them.

He ignored the fact that the Athenians had broken the original treaty by invading his province of Egypt.

I think that in their hearts the Athenians truly believe this to be true.

Needless to say, the liveliest of the Athenians speculate on these matters all the time.

This is what Athenians call those Greeks who favor the Persians and their brother-race the Medes.

Although Hippias had continued the golden age of his father, the great Pisistratus, the Athenians had become bored with him and his family.

But then, whenever the Athenians have too much of a good thing, they promptly seek something bad.

But when it comes to fate, as the Athenians like to remind us in those tragedies that they are forever mounting so expensively at the theater, one cannot win.

Although the Athenians of those days were not as opposed to mixed marriages as they are now, everyone at Athens thought that if a member of their reigning dynasty were to marry a Persian lady she should be, at the very least, a member of our imperial house.

Solon correctly blamed not Pisistratus but the Athenians for the rise of the tyrant.

Naturally, I do not mention my enthusiasm to present-day Athenians, who have been taught for half a century to hate the family that their grandparents loved.

Only the Athenians looked glum: it is a long way from Naxos to Athens.

Meanwhile, at sea, the combined fleets of Aristagoras and the Athenians proved to be invulnerable and, for a time, invincible.