place

Athens

The Attic city of Athena’s name and of later philosophers. Civic cult and later “Athens of the mind” are different uses of the place.

Also known as Athēnai

Hellenic religion

Athens belongs to Hellenic religion.
Athens is a Greek city of Athena’s cult. Philosophers later used the name as a mind; the cult is older than that metaphor.
from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE; Walter Burkert · Greek Religion, 1977 German; 1985 English
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Athens is associated with Olive.
The civic olive and its prizes belong to Attica. Pausanias walks that landscape.
from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE
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Athens appears in Hellenic religion.
Herodotus’s Athenian logos seats Athens among Greek politics, cult, and Persian-war speech. A named athens in that traveler’s speech, not a modern capital dump and not a belongs_to walk without this source.
from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE
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Athena is sacred to Athens.
The city bears her name and her temple on the Acropolis. Civic cult, not a generic mind-goddess of later essays.
from Anonymous (Homeric hymn) · Homeric Hymn to Athena, c. 7th–5th century BCE; Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE; Walter Burkert · Greek Religion, 1977 German; 1985 English
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Olive appears in Athens.
The olive is Attic agriculture and prize. Pausanias walks a landscape of trees and cult; he is not writing a pan-Hellenic oil theology.
from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE
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Owl appears in Athens.
Athenian coins and the city’s goddess share the owl. Civic sign, not a death-cry.
from Walter Burkert · Greek Religion, 1977 German; 1985 English; Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)
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