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Athens is a city and the county seat of Henderson County, [6] Texas, in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 12,857. [7] The city has called itself the " Black-Eyed Pea Capital of the World." [8] Athens was selected as one of the first "Certified Retirement Communities" in Texas. [9]
The Grave Stele of Hegeso, most likely sculpted by Callimachus, is renowned as one of the finest Attic grave stelae surviving (mostly intact) today. Dated from c. 410 – c. 400 BCE, [1] it is made entirely of Pentelic marble. It stands 1.49m high and 0.92m wide, in the form of a naiskos, with pilasters and a pediment featuring palmette acroteria.
Ancient Greek funerary vases. Ancient Greek funerary vases are decorative grave markers made in ancient Greece that were designed to resemble liquid-holding vessels. These decorated vases were placed on grave sites as a mark of elite status. There are many types of funerary vases, such as amphorae, kraters, oinochoe, and kylix cups, among others.
Pericles's Funeral Oration ( Perikles hält die Leichenrede) by Philipp Foltz (1852) [1] " Pericles's Funeral Oration " ( Ancient Greek: Περικλέους Επιτάφιος) is a famous speech from Thucydides ' History of the Peloponnesian War. [2] The speech was supposed to have been delivered by Pericles, an eminent Athenian politician ...
Rhetoric. A funeral oration or epitaphios logos ( Greek: ἐπιτάφιος λόγος) is a formal speech delivered on the ceremonial occasion of a funeral. Funerary customs comprise the practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.
The speech is the first in the transmitted Lysianic corpus and is therefore also known as Lysias 1. The speech was given by a certain Euphiletos, defending himself against the charge that he murdered Eratosthenes, after he supposedly caught Eratosthenes committing adultery with his wife. Euphiletos defends himself claiming that the killing of ...
80004135 [1] Added to NRHP. June 9, 1980. The Faulk and Gauntt Building, at 217 N. Prairieville St. in Athens, Texas, was built in 1896. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1] It is also a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark. [citation needed] It was deemed significant as "an excellent example of late Victorian ...
Henderson County Courthouse. Designated. 2002. Reference no. 13831. The Henderson County Courthouse, built in 1913, is an historic 3-story redbrick Classical Revival style courthouse building with full basement located at 100 East Tyler Street in Athens, Texas. The courthouse has been designated as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark since 2002.