Athens

Athens

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settlement

Events
  1. Theseus and the Minotaur
  2. Theseus sets out for the Calydonian Boar Hunt
  3. Medea marries and has a son with Aegeus
  4. Medea is expelled from Athens for plotting against Theseus
  5. Amphitryon visits Cephalus to fetch a hunting dog for the Cadmean Vixen
  6. Eurystheus goes to war with the Athenians
  7. Eurystheus’ sons are killed in his war against the Athenians
  8. Hercules’ sons take sanctuary at an altar in Athens
  9. Daedalus is banished from Athens for murder
  10. Adrastus takes refuge at the Altar of Mercy in Athens
  11. Medea convinces Aegeus to send Theseus against Marathonian bull
  12. Medea gives Aegeus poison to administer to Theseus
  13. Aegeus tries to poison Theseus
  14. Aegeus recognizes Theseus as his son
  15. Theseus is selected as a tribute offering for the Minotaur
  16. Theseus forgets to use white sails upon his return to Athens
  17. Aegeus kills himself
  18. Theseus rules Athens
  19. Theseus kills the sons of Pallas
  20. Theseus and the Athenians defeat the Amazon army
  21. Phaedra hangs herself
  22. Theseus and Pirithous decide that they will marry daughters of Zeus
  23. The Dioscuri, Lacedaemonians and Arcadians capture Athens
  24. The Dioscuri, Lacedaemonians and Arcadians abduct Helen and Aethra
  25. Demophon and Acamas flee from the Dioscuri
  26. The Dioscuri give Menestheus the kingdom of Athens
  27. Menestheus drives Theseus away from Athens
  28. The Eumenides pursue Orestes because he killed his mother
  29. Orestes is tried for his mother’s murder in the Areopagus
  30. Orestes brings the wooden image to Athens
  31. Athens is awarded to Athena, rather than Poseidon
  32. Erechtheus was born from the soil (Gaia), but fostered by Zeus’ daughter Athena
  33. Athena gives Pandrosus a chest in which Erichthonius is enclosed
  34. Pandrosus’ sisters open Athena’s chest
  35. Erichthonius sets up the wooden image of Athena in the acropolis and starts the festival of Panathenaea
  36. When Erichthonius dies and is buried in the same precinct of Athena, Pandion becomes king
  37. Procris has sex with Pteleon in return for a golden crown
  38. Cephalus catches Procris and Pteleon in bed
  39. Procris, fearing Minos’s wife, returns to Athens
  40. Procris accompanies Cephalus on a hunt
  41. Procris gets hit by Cephalus’s javelin while chasing a beast and dies
  42. Cephalus is tried for killing Procris and is condemned to perpetual exile
  43. When Erechtheus slaughters his youngest daughter, his other daughters kill themselves in accordance with their oath
  44. Erechtheus kills Eumolpus in battle
  45. Poseidon destroys Erechtheus and his house
  46. Cecrops, the eldest son of Erechtheus, succeeds to the throne
  47. Pandion, reigning after Cecrops, is expelled by Metion’s sons
  48. After Pandion’s death, his sons march against Athens
  49. Pandion’s sons expel the Metionids from Athens
  50. Pandion’s sons divide the kingdom of Athens into four
  51. Aegeus takes over all the Athenian territory
  52. Aegeus, puzzled by an oracle, sets out for Athens
  53. Aegeus returns to Athens
  54. Androgeus wins the games at the Panathenian festival
  55. Aegeus attacks Athens with his fleet
  56. As the war continues, Minos prays to Zeus to capture Athens
  57. As plague and famine hit Athens, the Athenians, following an ancient oracle, slaughter the daughters of Hyacinth on the grave of Geraestus
  58. Hyacinth of Lacedaemon lives in Athens
  59. The Athenians ask the oracle for a solution to the plague and famine
  60. Zeus tells the Athenians to give Minos whatever he wants
  61. Minos demands a tribute of seven boys and girls from Athens to be sent annually to the Minotaur
  62. Daedalus sees Talos sawing a thin stick with a snake’s jawbone
  63. Daedalus throws Talos down the acropolis fearing that he might surpass him
  64. Daedalus flees from Athens
  65. Menestheus and the Athenians send ships to Troy
  66. The sisters of Pandrosus are destroyed by the serpent in Erichthonius’ chest
  67. The sisters of Pandrosus are driven mad by Athena and throw themselves from the Acropolis
  68. Aegeus instructs Theseus to return with white sails on his ship should he survive the Minotaur
  69. Hippolyte interrupts the marriage of Phaedra and Theseus with her Amazons
  70. Hippolyte and her Amazons are killed
  71. Themistocles becomes an archon
  72. Themistocles makes Peiraeus the Athenian port
  73. Themistocles’ relatives bring his bones back to Athens from Magnesia
  74. Themistocles’ children place his portrait in the Parthenon
  75. Arcesilaus paints a picture of Leosthenes and his sons
  76. Leochares creates statues of Zeus and a Demos
  77. Conon builds a sanctuary of Aphrodite
  78. Antiope is shot by Molpadia
  79. Molpadia is killed by Theseus
  80. Pindar recalls a tale of Antiope, Theseus and Peirithous
  81. Hegias tells the tale of Antiope, Theseus and Heracles
  82. Athenians tell the tale of Antiope, Molpadia and Theseus
  83. Conon restores South Athens walls after the battle at Cnidus
  84. Themistocles builds walls around Athens after the Persians retreat
  85. Athens’ walls are destroyed during the rule of The Thirty
  86. Praxiteles carves a statue near a grave
  87. Praxiteles creates images of Demeter and Iacchus
  88. Leos sacrifices his daughters for the sake of the commonwealth
  89. Cecrops marries Agraulus
  90. Ptolemy aids Athenians in their battle against Antigonus
  91. Pausanias sees Alcamenes’ sculpture of Ares
  92. Pausanias sees Locrus’ statue of Athena
  93. Pausanias sees the sculpture of Enyo by the sons of Praxiteles
  94. Pausanias says that the Athenians ordered a statue of Pindar to be created
  95. Harmodius and Aristogiton kill Hipparchus
  96. Pausanias sees statues made by Critius and Antenor
  97. Xerxes invades Athens
  98. Antiochus returns statues to Athens
  99. Athenians vacate Athens
  100. The Athenians erect statues of Ptolemy and Berenice
  101. Epimenides writes poetry and purifies Athens
  102. Aegeus establishes the Athenian cult of Aphrodite
  103. Pleistarchus is overtaken by the Athenians
  104. Stichius comes from Athens
  105. Iasus comes from Athens
People
  1. Acamas
  2. Adrastus
  3. Aegeus
  4. Aegleis
  5. Aethra
  6. Agraulus
  7. Agraulus
  8. Alcamenes
  9. Alexander
  10. Amphitryon
  11. Androgeus
  12. Antigonus
  13. Antheis
  14. Antiope
  15. Antiochus
  16. Aphrodite
  17. Ares
  18. Aristogiton
  19. Arkesilaos
  20. Athena
  21. Berenice
  22. Cecrops
  23. Cecrops
  24. Cephalus
  25. Cephalus
  26. Conon
  27. Cretan Bull
  28. Daedalus
  29. Demophon
  30. Enyo
  31. Epimenides
  32. Erechtheus
  33. Erichthonius
  34. Erigone
  35. Erysichthon
  36. Eumolpus
  37. Eupalamus
  38. Eurystheus
  39. Eurybius
  40. Gaia
  41. Harmodius
  42. Helen
  43. Hercules
  44. Herse
  45. Hippolyte
  46. Hipparchus
  47. Hyacinth
  48. Hyllus
  49. Iasos
  50. Iphimedon
  51. Kritios
  52. Leochares
  53. Leos
  54. Leosthenes
  55. Locrus
  56. Lycus
  57. Lytaea
  58. Medea
  59. Medus
  60. Menestheus
  61. Mentor
  62. Minos
  63. Minotaur
  64. Molpadia
  65. Nisus
  66. Orestes
  67. Orthaea
  68. Pallas
  69. Pandrosus
  70. Pandion
  71. Pandion
  72. Pasiphae
  73. Perithous
  74. Perimedes
  75. Phaedra
  76. Pindar
  77. Pleistarchus
  78. Poseidon
  79. Praxiteles
  80. Procris
  81. Procris
  82. Pteleon
  83. Ptolemy
  84. Ptolemy
  85. Stichius
  86. Talos
  87. Themistocles
  88. Theseus
  89. Tyndareus
  90. Xerxes
  91. Zeus
Groups
  1. Amazons
  2. Arcadians
  3. Athenians vs Troy
  4. Athenians
  5. Dioscuri
  6. Eumenides
  7. Heraclids
  8. Macedonians
  9. Metionids
  10. Persians
  11. Spartans
  12. The Thirty
Citations
  1. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 8.2
  2. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 9.28
  3. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 4.7
  4. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 8.1
  5. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 1.4
  6. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 7.1
  7. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 14.1
  8. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 14.6
  9. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 15.1
  10. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 15.6
  11. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 15.7
  12. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 15.8
  13. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 16.1
  14. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 1.4
  15. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 1.8
  16. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 1.11
  17. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 1.16
  18. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 1.23
  19. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 1.24
  20. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 6.25
  21. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 6.27
  22. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 2, Section 545
  23. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 1.2
  24. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 1.5
  25. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 2.5
  26. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 5.5
  27. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 7.3
  28. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 8.3
  29. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 8.5
  30. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 14.1
  31. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 14.3
  32. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 14.4
  33. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 15.2
  34. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 17.6
  35. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 18.8
  36. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 19.2
  37. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 19.5
  38. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 20.4
  39. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 20.5
  40. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 20.6
  41. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 20.7
  42. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 22.5
  43. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 23.9
  44. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 23.10
  45. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 25.3
  46. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 25.6
  47. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 26.1
  48. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 26.2
  49. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 26.3
  50. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 26.6
  51. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 27.2
  52. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 27.5
  53. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 27.8
  54. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 27.10
  55. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 28.2
  56. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 28.10
  57. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 29.8
  58. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 31.3
  59. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 32.3
  60. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 32.6
  61. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 33.1
  62. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 33.2
  63. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 35.3
  64. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 36.3
  65. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 36.5
  66. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 37.5
  67. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 37.6
  68. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 37.7
  69. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 38.8
  70. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 39.4
  71. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 41.4
  72. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 41.9
  73. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 1.4
  74. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 3.8
  75. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 14.4
  76. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 18.9
  77. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 24.7
  78. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 26.2
  79. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 27.2
  80. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 29.5
  81. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 31.7
  82. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 33.4
  83. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 3.7
  84. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 4.2
  85. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 4.8
  86. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 5.2
  87. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 6.4
  88. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 6.5
  89. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 6.6
  90. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 7.8
  91. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 7.10
  92. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 8.6
  93. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 9.1
  94. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 9.6
  95. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 9.12
  96. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 11.2
  97. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 12.7
  98. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 2.6
  99. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 5.2
  100. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 5.10
  101. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 13.7
  102. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 15.1
  103. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 15.6
  104. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 17.5
  105. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 23.4
  106. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 23.10
  107. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 24.5
  108. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 24.6
  109. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 26.8
  110. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 4, Section 27.9
  111. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 5, Section 4.7
  112. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 5, Section 6.5
  113. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 5, Section 9.3
  114. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 5, Section 10.4
  115. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 5, Section 11.6
  116. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 5, Section 12.4
  117. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 5, Section 19.3
  118. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 5, Section 21.5
  119. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 5, Section 23.4
  120. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 5, Section 26.6
  121. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 6, Section 5.3
  122. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 6, Section 7.4
  123. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 6, Section 8.4
  124. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 6, Section 9.5
  125. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 6, Section 17.8
  126. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 6, Section 17.9
  127. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 6, Section 19.13
  128. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 6, Section 20.14
  129. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 6, Section 22.7
  130. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 7, Section 1.2
  131. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 7, Section 1.3
  132. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 7, Section 2.1
  133. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 7, Section 2.2
  134. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 7, Section 2.7
  135. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 7, Section 3.6
  136. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 7, Section 6.4
  137. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 7, Section 7.8
  138. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 7, Section 9.6
  139. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 7, Section 10.4
  140. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 7, Section 11.6
  141. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 7, Section 16.10
  142. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 7, Section 20.6
  143. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 7, Section 24.5
  144. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 7, Section 25.2
  145. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 7, Section 25.4
  146. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 7, Section 25.9
  147. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 2.2
  148. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 6.2
  149. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 8.6
  150. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 10.4
  151. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 11.12
  152. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 23.3
  153. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 27.8
  154. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 37.3
  155. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 39.3
  156. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 42.10
  157. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 45.4
  158. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 46.3
  159. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 52.3
  160. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 1.4
  161. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 1.8
  162. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 3.2
  163. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 6.2
  164. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 6.3
  165. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 6.6
  166. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 7.1
  167. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 11.6
  168. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 14.7
  169. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 15.4
  170. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 15.5
  171. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 24.2
  172. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 26.6
  173. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 30.1
  174. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 32.5
  175. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 32.8
  176. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 35.3
  177. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 39.1
  178. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 2.2
  179. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 2.3
  180. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 3.1
  181. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 4.3
  182. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 4.9
  183. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 5.13
  184. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 10.1
  185. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 18.7
  186. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 23.14
  187. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 24.1
  188. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 25.10
  189. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 34.8
  190. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 35.8
  191. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 37.6
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