Example sentences for: athenian

How can you use “athenian” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Although there were minor internal wrangles, the league controlled the Aegean and the greater Athenian Empire for most of the fifth century b.c.

  • During all this, the Athenian political system allowed the average citizen a greater degree of participation in public life than ever before anywhere, and perhaps since.

  • A classicist, Arendt saw the public arena as a version of the Athenian agora--a world of political theater, where the harsh light of publicity shines upon fierce debate.

  • Many houses on the island are second homes for wealthy Athenian families.

  • The fleet of 700 Persian ships then engaged the much smaller Athenian naval force under the command of Themistocles in the Strait of Salamis, but Xerxes was in for a surprise.


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