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Introduction Classical Athens saw the rise of an achievement unparalleled in history. Perikles, Aeschylus, Sophokles, Plato, Demosthenes, Thucydides, and Praxiteles represent just a few of the statesmen ... Even when her power waned, Athens remained the cultural and educational center of the Mediterranean until the 6th century A.D. Throughout antiquity Athens was adorned with great public buildings, financed first by its citizens, and later with gifts from Hellenistic kings and Roman emperors. ... Figure 1. Plan and restored drawing of the Agora at the height of its development in ca. ... Athenian silver tetradrachm, 5th century B.C., with the head of Athena on the obverse, and her sacred owl, an olive sprig, and the legend (ΑΘΕ) on the reverse.