Simon of Athens was an Athenian writer on horses and horsemanship of the fifth century BC. He is the earliest known ancient Greek writer on the subject; Pliny described him as primus de equitatu scripsit, "the first to have written on riding". His writings are quoted by Xenophon.
SimonofAthens was an Athenian writer on horses and horsemanship of the fifth century BC. He is the earliest known ancient Greek writer on the subject;...
ofAthens (Greek: Δουκᾶτον Ἀθηνῶν, Doukaton Athinon; Catalan: Ducat d'Atenes) was one of the Crusader states set up in Greece after the conquest of the...
Historical affiliations Kingdom ofAthens 1556 BC–1068 BC City-state ofAthens 1068 BC–322 BC Hellenic League 338 BC–322 BC Kingdom of Macedonia 322 BC–148 BC...
Timon ofAthens (The Life of Tymon ofAthens) is a play written by William Shakespeare and likely also Thomas Middleton in about 1606. It was published...
Apollodorus ofAthens (Greek: Ἀπολλόδωρος ὁ Ἀθηναῖος, Apollodoros ho Athenaios; c. 180 BC – after 120 BC), son of Asclepiades, was a Greek scholar, historian...
Sir Simon Russell Beale CBE (born 12 January 1961) is an English actor. He has been described by The Independent as "the greatest stage actor of his generation"...
includes Timon of Athens (2008), Entertaining Mr Sloane (2009), Private Lives (2010), Twelfth Night (National Theatre, 2011), The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare's...
The study of the lives of women in classical Athens has been a significant part of classical scholarship since the 1970s. The knowledge of Athenian women's...
Quadratus ofAthens (Greek: Κοδρᾶτος) was a Greek Apostolic Father, bishop ofAthens. He is counted among the Seventy Apostles in the tradition of the Eastern...
brought charges against Simon, especially if he was a powerful figure in Athens. The prosecutor Simon, although his version of the story is not heard in...
ancient Athens, ruling as tyrant in the late 560s, the early 550s and from 546 BC until his death. His unification of Attica, the triangular peninsula of Greece...
constitution of ancient Athens and setting it on a democratic footing in 508 BC. For these accomplishments, historians refer to him as "the father of Athenian...
Classical Athens, a system of nine concurrent archons evolved, led by three respective remits over the civic, military, and religious affairs of the state:...
Georg Simon Sina. Rükl & Rackham 1991, pp. 98: "Sinas [8.8°N, 31.6°E] Simon Sinas, 1810–1876. Greek merchant, patron of astronomers, bequeathed Athens Observatory...
31–June 3 Foley Field, Athens, Georgia (Host: University of Georgia) Boshamer Stadium, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Host: University of North Carolina) Davenport...
age of Classical Greece, from the Greco-Persian Wars to the 5th to 4th centuries BC, and which included the Golden Age ofAthens. The conquests of Alexander...
co-educational private preparatory school in Psychiko, Greece, a suburb ofAthens, part of the Hellenic-American Educational Foundation (Ελληνοαμερικανικό Εκπαιδευτικό...
The House of Bernarda Alba at the Royal Exchange in Manchester. In 2018, Hunter returned to the RSC to play the title role in Timon ofAthens, directed...
Airport in Athens. Alexander was instructing a potential new pilot of the plane, Donald McCusker, at the time of the crash, in his role as President of Olympic...
e. Xenophon and SimonofAthens), the roots of their tradition mainly lie in Hellenistic agricultural literature derived from Mago of Carthage. In the...
Carl Raswan deepened his study of classical languages during his high school years, reading the works ofSimonofAthens, Xenophon, Varro, Oppian and Palladius...
lost, as was that by Simon of Athens, which is twice mentioned by Xenophon in On Horsemanship. Some fragments ofSimon's treatise survive, however; they...
within the Athens urban area ("Greater Athens"), in the Attica region of Greece. It is located eight kilometres (5 mi) southwest ofAthens' city centre...
"RSC Website - Timon ofAthens". Theatre, National (8 June 2018). "Antony & Cleopatra". The National Theatre. "Japan Times - Simon Godwin Interview". 30...
on leap years (except 2021). The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens, Greece, and the most recent Games were held in 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. The...
in Athens, who lived in the first century. A convert to Christianity, he is venerated as a saint by multiple denominations. As related in the Acts of the...
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