The Athenian Metropolitan Authority studied satellite imagery of the metropolis and found almost 17, 000 privately-owned pools!
Now that planet-wide network of interlinked computers became a court of the people - virtual Athenian democracy.
Georgios Barkouris, a musician from a middle-class Athenian family, worked for two decades for the national radio station.
Were the states of the empire actually keen to come into the Athenian-zone?
The irony was that the Greek culture Alexander embraced and spread through the middle east was very largely Athenian Greek high culture.
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Others made him far older, dating from the Athenian drama and the Japanese noh plays, via the commedia dell'arte and Charlie Chaplin.
In a case alongside him stands a 20-inch marble statuette of a much younger Herakles, beardless, sleek and classically muscled in the late Athenian manner.
Athenian newspapers, including pro-opposition ones, have kept an odd silence on the issue, a silence some Greeks ascribe to the power of the construction lobby.
Although Tsakonas, a native Athenian, had visited and sailed the Cyclades as a youth with his family, he didn't have special ties to the island.
Socrates and Aristophanes were hardly polite about the Athenian democracy.
He gained a doctorate with a dissertation on Athenian democracy.
The graph would include little spikes marking the high points of Mesopotamian agriculture, Egyptian construction and jewelry, Chinese gunpowder and paper, Athenian education, Roman roads and aqueducts, and so on.
In 2007 the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok), then in opposition, used deliberative polling to select its mayoral candidate for the Athenian district of Marousi (in the real election, he lost).
Legend has it that Pheidippides, the ancient Athenian soldier who ran the route that inspired the modern marathon, died from exhaustion but only after covering the distance of a marathon every day over a ten-day period.
Frank Miller is in Athenian company, though.
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But on any interpretation, it is hard to resist the conclusion that the Athenian imperialists were using monetary union to display their political muscle - and hard not to imagine that vengeance for that has finally come, 25 centuries later.
Another reason is they feel they have contributed to the project historically - not just through Athenian democracy but in the liberation struggle against the Ottoman Empire, and through the heroic resistance to Nazism which still haunts the memories of elderly people here.
If one were to graph the pace of technological breakthroughs and resulting business structure changes and wealth creation throughout history, the graph would include little spikes to include the high points of Mesopotamian agriculture, Egyptian construction, Chinese paper, Athenian education, Roman roads and aqueducts, and so on.
Some time about 440BC, the Athenians decided to make all these people get rid of their own currency, with their own national emblems, and use Athenian "owls" instead - in fact some of the public notices laying this down, still survive, inscribed on stone around what was the Athenian empire.
Was he suggesting that his accession to power has transformed international affairs, consigning to history's dustbin the writings of Thucydides, the venerable Athenian historian who, roughly 2, 300 years ago, observed that nations, like men, pursue what they perceive as their interests -- sometimes with judgment, sometimes without, and occasionally with tragic results.
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