place
Athens
also: Athenae
The principal city of Attica and the intellectual capital of the Greek world.
Reading notes
- The Odes §1.3 Attica
The territory of Athens, Vergil's destination.
- The Epistles §2.1 Athens
The principal city of Attica and the intellectual capital of the Greek world.
- The Satires §1.1 that man at Athens
Athens, the cultural capital of Greece; the anonymous miser who applauds himself before his coin-chest is a stock figure of the moralists' diatribe.