Ancient Greek region

Usage examples of attica.

And so, just opposite the narrow channel that separates Eretria from Attica, the Athenian and Plataean troops took their stand in the plain of Marathon under the leadership of the former tyrant Miltiades.

Zon and Stan Berg, the superintendents of the Attica and Clinton Correctional Facilities respectively, as well as their staffs, for always displaying the utmost professionalism and courtesy.

But Joel dropped out of Brockport not long after we met, and I would not see him again until the Attica visit two decades later.

While he displayed the same candor with me during my first Attica visit over seven years later, the medication he was on seemed to make him, on the surface at least, a lot less desperate for the attention he was clearly reveling in after his arrest.

WAS ASSIGNED INMATE NUMBER 95-A6514, the numerical designation he will carry with him for the rest of his natural life, when he arrived at the Attica Correctional Facility in February 1996.

Three decades later the word Attica is still synonymous with the precarious line between violence and justice.

My perspective is now one where I witness daily the influence that commercial-like mass media violence has had on my fellow residents of Attica Prison.

As the controversy raged on, Joel, in his solitary, windowless Attica cell, forged ahead in trying to make his concept a reality.

Oddly enough, the only time I could clearly see Joel as a stone-cold killer was when I envisioned him feverishly drafting his Oholah proposal in the solitude of his Attica cell.

THE SPRING OF 2000 JOEL WAS transferred from the solitary cell at Attica to the protective custody wing at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York.

Oholah project at Attica, I asked how things were coming and he said it was on the back burner.

Little Attica mourned because no one would let her see her mother, who had to stay in Rome while Atticus sent his daughter and her servants to isolation in his villa at Pompeii.

When this happened in Media and Attica and Magadha, the Aryan tribesmen became civilized by their slaves.

A second army corps guarded the long overland route from Attica to the Hellespont.

Suddenly, finding the moon in an auspicious position, he led the Spartan army into Attica and asked Mardonius to make him a present of a chest of gold, upon whose receipt he would withdraw.