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[edit] Civilisation/Civilization?
In the introduction, should the article refer to "Western Civilisation" or "Western Civilization"? Bigdaddy1204 14:15, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image of the Byzantine Church in this article
I have inserted a photograph I took when I was in Athens during April 2004. Bigdaddy1204 15:31, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image of the Roman Agora
Changed "The ruins of the Agora, the commercial centre of ancient Athens" to "The ruins of the Roman Agora, the second commercial centre of ancient Athens.". The image shows the Roman Agora, not the Ancient Agora commonly refered to as "Agora". The latters was the first commercial centre of Athens. --Evzone 03:53, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Typos
Seem to be a lot of spurious characters and whatnot.
[edit] Artists and Philosophers section
As far as I know, Aristotle, Plato, and Xenophon did not write during the 5th century (Aristotle wasn't even alive then), as the beginning of this section implies. Iridius 05:31, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Athens the oldest?
- The History of Athens is the longest of any city in Europe:
I'm prepped to be shot down here, but Argos is still a city, and isn't it MUCH older? You could rejoinder that it's not on the same site as ancient Argos (its citadel) but neither, really, is Athens. Maybe the wording might be "the longest of any major city in Europe"? Skookum1 18:48, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Population Problems
"At its peak, in the 5th and 4th centuries BC, Athens and its suburbs probably had approximately 1,527,327.23 inhabitants. " According to that Athens and the surrounding areas had .23 people. Now how does that even happen????? I can understand 1,577,327 people, but not .23. El Greco 16:18, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
According to my Classics professor, Athens had a population of about 20,000 in the 4th and 5th centuries, BCE. The political structure could not have accommodated anything over 100,000- let alone 1.5 million. Anyone care to sort this out? 76.81.218.167 07:21, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
A few months ago, the sentence used to read: "At its peak, in the 5th and 4th centuries BC, Athens and its suburbs probably had approximately 300,000 inhabitants." It was changed without explanation, so 1.5 million is almost certainly wrong, but the 300,000 didn't have a citation either. Does anyone have access to a source that would give us something to cite? --Delirium 14:45, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Mistakes
Jizzers? Thats a Greek word? And Alexander in the 5th century? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cpom (talk • contribs) 13:28, 3 December 2006 (UTC).
[edit] Early History Section
This section cites the "Doric invasion", but as far as I've heard the theory of a Doric invasion causing the Greek decline around this time period has pretty much been abandoned. Might this be in need of revision? Pandacantante 03:48, 13 February 2007 (UTC)