Athens

is an embodiment of the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, art.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest... Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem... and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. Benjamin Disraeli

is great not despite but because of its misogyny.

Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

is permeated by the smell of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas, and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.

Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.

is like a great mother who opens her heart to Greeks from every part of the country. Though stretched beyond her limits, in her heart Athens always has room for one more Greek.

Athens is like a great mother who opens her heart to Greeks from every part of the country. Even though she has already stretched beyond what is physically bearable, in her heart Athens always has room for one more Greek. Quoted in Cities, John McGreevy

Athens, that home of all learning. Aeterni Patris

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