Athenian
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- adjective
- /əˈθiniən/
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atenienses
- Socio-economic change and new political conceptions undoubtedly played indispensable parts in the development of Athenian democracy.
- Athenian democracy
- Athenian society
- Athenian public morality
It was a big middle finger to the Athenian intellectual establishment.
- It was a big middle finger to the Athenian intellectual establishment.
- He then concludes, this was the old Athenian way.
- And so we see that, you know, there there's a lot of Athenian defeats as well as victories.
- Athenian culture was particularly bad, but Alexander wasn't taking Athenian culture as his model.
- I don't think it's going to ever look like Athenian democracy, but that should drive our policy.
- Well, you do realize that the Athenian Acropolis here, let me pull up my screen, if you don't mind.
Examples
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One is Socrates, who is condemned to death unjustly by the Athenian democracy, and he is forced to swallow the hemlock.
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Pericles leads the Athenian army out to meet them.
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I much prefer, I much prefer the Athenian definition of the word that we need.
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In the face of the enemy, at least, Athenian hoplites were equal.
Academic text (1995) -
I don't think it's going to ever look like Athenian democracy, but that should drive our policy.
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But Athenian law let the condemned come up with their own alternate punishment.
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This is how young, educated, affluent, Athenian young men should exist.
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Yet it is impossible to imagine Athenian democracy without its hoplite component.
Academic text (1995) -
Socrates was a soldier in the Athenian army during the Peloponnesian War, as he tells us in The Apology.
Academic text (1998) -
The Athenian architecture is renowned for its classical style and historical significance.
Synonyms
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9.5
Relating to the people or language of ancient Athens
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Athenian comes from the city Athens and the goddess Athena, who was linked to wisdom and the arts. So when Athenian is used as an adjective it means 'of or relating to Athens', and it reminds us of the city's famous thinkers and culture.