Athens

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 3 §31 Athens

  The leading city of Greece, source of Solon's celebrated laws, which the envoys went to copy.

• The History of Rome, Book 9 §18 Athens

  The Greek city where, Livy notes, free speech against Alexander survived Macedonian power.

• The History of Rome, Book 31 §2 city

  Athens, the chief city of Attica, pressed by Philip and appealing to Rome.

• The History of Rome, Book 33 §30 Athens

  The Athenian state, whose envoys interceded for the Boeotians.

• The History of Rome, Book 34 §1 Athens

  Greek city whose ornaments Cato names among the seductive luxuries.

• The History of Rome, Book 35 §30 Athens

  The Greek city whose envoys Quinctius enlisted to argue against Antiochus before the Aetolians.

• The History of Rome, Book 38 §3 Athens

  The Greek city whose envoys interceded for the Aetolians at Rome.

• The History of Rome, Book 40 §6 Athens

  The Greek city to which Poris means to carry the children, to faithful guest-friends.

• The History of Rome, Book 41 §30 Athens

  The Greek city where Antiochus continued the vast temple of Olympian Jupiter (Zeus).