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The 34 pages that link to Athens, each with the reason it gives.

• 2004 Summer OlympicsNarrower topic: The city’s ancient Olympic heritage shaped the meaning and presentation of the 2004 Games.

• SpartaCompared with: Its civic institutions and economic base contrasted sharply with Sparta’s militarized citizen regime.

• Roman GreeceBroader topic: Under Rome, Athens retained prestige as a center of education and Greek cultural memory.

• PolisBroader topic: Its political experiments became the best-known model of civic participation.

• PiraeusRelated: Athens is the metropolis whose principal seaport is Piraeus.

• MenanderRelated: Menander was born and worked in Athens, where his comedies were staged.

• Eleusinian MysteriesRelated: Athenian patronage helped spread the rites beyond their local sanctuary.

• MacedonCompared with: Athens resisted Macedonian dominance and led the opposing coalition at Chaeronea.

• ChrysippusRelated: Chrysippus studied and led the Stoic school in Athens.

• Gregory of NazianzusRelated: Gregory studied there with Basil, forming a friendship that lasted through their church careers.

• Boeotian LeagueCompared with: Athens alternately controlled Boeotia, fought its forces, and joined anti-Theban coalitions.

• LyceumNarrower topic: The Lyceum belonged to Athens’s wider landscape of philosophical schools.

• Zeno of CitiumRelated: Zeno established his teaching community in Athens.

• PraxitelesRelated: Praxiteles is traditionally associated with Athens and its artistic networks.

• Yorgos LanthimosRelated: His early films were made within Athens’s independent film scene.

• European Capital of CultureBroader topic: Athens inaugurated the initiative with its 1985 programme.

• Greek city-stateBroader topic: Athens became the most prominent example of a democratic polis.

• Greek popular musicRelated: Its venues, studios, and media industries helped popular styles reach national audiences.

• RebetikoRelated: Athens became a major center for rebetiko composition, recording, and performance.

• Bosporan KingdomRelated: Athenian demand for grain made the Bosporan region a consequential supplier.

• History of citiesBroader topic: Its institutions and public spaces illuminate the city-state as a historical form.

• Irene of AthensRelated: Irene came from Athens before her marriage brought her to the Byzantine court.

• Thucydides TrapBroader topic: Its growth in power is the rising-state side of Thucydides’ account.

• Giorgio de ChiricoRelated: His birthplace connected his family history to the classical antiquity that recurs in his art.

• GreeceBroader topic: The capital concentrates national government, cultural institutions, and much of the country’s population.

• Demetrios VikelasRelated: Vikelas advocated Athens as the host city for the inaugural modern Olympics.

• Vassilis TsitsanisRelated: Tsitsanis built his recording and performance career in the city.

• Ancient CorinthCompared with: Athens rivaled Corinth for influence in trade, diplomacy, and the conflicts of classical Greece.

• Manos HadjidakisRelated: Hadjidakis was born and began his artistic life in Athens.

• PhryneNarrower topic: Phryne lived and faced trial in the city whose stories preserved her reputation.

• 3 September RevolutionBroader topic: The uprising unfolded in the city, centered on the royal palace.

• Alki ZeiRelated: Zei was born and raised in Athens, a setting that recurs in her fiction.

• Anna VissiRelated: Vissi moved to Athens as a teenager to pursue music.

• Draconian constitutionNarrower topic: The constitution governed Athens before its later democratic institutions developed.