"ATHENS" a Athens Travel Page by STRATOS79

The history of Athens is
one of the longest
of any city in the world.
Athens name is related with the goddess
of wisdom Athena.
It is also known
as the birthplace of democracy
The Acropolis(and Parthenon)is one of
the world's most famous landmarks
It is the city where Aeschyles,Aristophanes,
Euripidis,Sophocles( dramatists )
Aristotle,Plato,Socrates( philosophers )
Herodotus,Thucydides,Xenophon( historians)
were born

Athens today is the capital
and the largest city of Greece.
The metropolitan area is the centre
of economic,financial,industrial,
cultural and political life in Greece.
Athens was the host city
of the first modern-day Olympic Games
in 1896 and in 2004
Athens nowdays is very famous
for it's nightlife, hospitality,
climate and it's traditional cuisine