Athenians Quotations

It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.

The Athenians had an oath for someone who was about to become a citizen. They had to swear that 'I shall leave the city not less but more beautiful than I found it.'

First Democracy,' ... is about the ideas that guided the Athenians in their efforts to build toward a perfect democracy. Without a firm grasp of these ideas, we will not understand democracy. And unless we understand democracy, we will be led astray by its doubles.

A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian Wars.

I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy,