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maria2
maria2
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High School - 9th Grade

Why is athens, in Pericles's words, "the school of hellas"?

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Posted by maria2 on Sunday October 26, 2008 at 4:48 AM and tagged with athens, hellas, history, pericles.

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  1. jwuenschel
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    Both modern and ancient Greece are referred to as "Hellas."  Athens was renowned for the many schools it had.  These schools were comprised primarily of philosophers and their...

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    http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Greeks.htm

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    Posted by jwuenschel on Tuesday November 4, 2008 at 5:32 PM