The traditional town meeting has its roots in the agora of ancient Athens, a place for sober, if contentious, deliberation.

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Bartering is as old as the ancient agora of Athens, when currency took many forms (okay, I had to get that ethnic plug in somewhere).

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One of the oldest cities in the world, Athens is the capital of Ancient and modern Greece and is considered the birthplace of Western civilisation.

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Diogenes the Cynic wandered about ancient Athens carrying a lantern on his quest to find a single honest man.

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Korzhanenko, 30, won the first athletics gold of the Athens Games on Wednesday at Ancient Olympia and failed a test immediately after the competition there.

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The marbles, ancient sculptures which once adorned the Parthenon in Athens, have been held in the British Museum since 1811.

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What the creators of the original sculptures of antiquity would have seen every day on the streets of ancient Rome or Athens would undoubtedly have sent our grotesque-o-meters spinning.

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When the Ancient Games were revived as the Modern Olympic Games in Athens 1896, local hero Spiridon Louis won the marathon -- as he should have -- to bring his country international recognition and fame.

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The city-states of ancient Greece had populations smaller than Iceland's today: Athens, at its peak in the age of Pericles, had perhaps 200, 000 people, slaves included.

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She still treasures the moment when a piece of the past, an object of people's daily lives in ancient Athens, or a marker mentioned in an ancient text, is revealed and she's able to bring it back into the light.

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