The cradle of Western democracy and philosophy, Athens dominated the Aegean through the Delian League and produced the cultural flowering of the Classical Age.
Lost its independence as a city-state in 338 BCE after Philip II of Macedon defeated Athens and Thebes at the Battle of Chaeronea, imposing Macedonian hegemony over Greece; Athens was not directly incorporated into Roman territory until well into the Roman era, as it retained the status of a nominally autonomous civitas foederata after the defeat of the Achaean League in 146 BCE.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Polis of Athens — the shape you scrub through changes in 508 BC · 334 BC.
Vivid account of Athens at its democratic and imperial peak under Pericles
Standard scholarly survey of the Classical period in which Athens is the dominant thread
Athens of Socrates and the Peloponnesian War.
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