"Attica" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that subsists between Geography and History, between a people and the country they inhabit, will justify the extension of our survey beyond the mere topography of Athens. The people of the entire province of Attica were called Athenians (Athenaioi) in their relation to the state, and Attics (Attikoi) in regard to their manners, customs, and dialect.[1] The climate and the scenery, the forms of contour and relief, the geographical position and relations of Attica, and, indeed, ...
— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker
... walls, each clan, left to itself, formed a special character of its own. The great chain of Pindus with its many branches, the lofty ridges of the Peloponnesus, allowed the people of Thessaly, Boeotia, Attica, Phocis, Locris, Argolis, Arcadia, Laconia, to attain those individual traits which distinguish them during all ...
— Ten Great Religions - An Essay in Comparative Theology • James Freeman Clarke
... describing legendary heroes and men of ancient lineage as "earthborn" greatly strengthened the doctrine of autochthony; for instance, the Athenians wore golden grasshoppers in their hair in token that they were born from the soil and had always lived in Attica (Thucydides i. 6; Plato, Menexenus, 245). In Thebes, the race of Sparti were believed to have sprung from a field sown with dragons' teeth. The Phrygian Corybantes had been forced out of the ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 - "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" • Various
... of men, and dwell far apart at the ends of the world. The Eskimos and the Fuegians, at the extreme north and south of the American continent, agree in having little or no private property and no chiefs. Yet magic is providing a kind of basis of rank. The bleak plains of ice and rock are, like Attica, "the mother of men without master or lord". Among the "house-mates" of the smaller settlements there is no head-man, and in the larger gatherings Dr. Rink says that "still less than among the house-mates was any one belonging to such a place ...
— Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1 • Andrew Lang
... not been many original productions within the last few months. M. Koumanondis, the distinguished archaeologist, the well-known author of a learned work, [Greek: 'Attikes epigraphai epitymbioi] (Sepulchral Inscriptions of Attica), frequently publishes in a Periodical Review of the University, the [Greek: Athenaion], very interesting papers on the archaeological discoveries which are daily being made in Hellenic soil. M. Anagnostakis, ...
— The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 • Various
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