Classical Athens

Runners set off on grueling ultramarathon

Athletes smile for the camera at the starting line of the 35th Spartathlon, beneath the Acropolis, early on Friday morning. The grueling 246-kilometer ultramarathon celebrating Pheidippides, the Athenian messenger who was sent to Sparta in 490 BC to seek help against the Persians in the Battle of Marathon, is this year being attempted by 400 athletes from around the world.

In search of remnants from the Battle of Salamis

A submerged part of a building in Ambelakia Bay on the island of Salamina near Athens. An interdisciplinary group of experts is exploring the sea in Ambelakia Bay, the main port of ancient Salamis, where the Athenian fleet assembled the day before the famous Battle of Salamis, during which the swift Greek ships defeated the Persians under King Xerxes in 480 BC.

Archaeologists go high-tech in 2,500-year-old Greek cold case

More than 2,500 years ago, an Athenian nobleman named Cylon -- the first recorded Olympic champion -- tried to take over the city of Athens and install himself as its sole ruler.

According to Thucydides and Herodotus, Athenian and Greek historians who wrote about the coup, Cylon enticed an army of followers to enter the city and lay siege to the Acropolis.

1000mods | Athens | January 21

Greek stoner rock band 1000mods, from Chiliomodi in the Peloponnese, will be performing songs from their new album "Repeated Exposure To…" at Piraeus 117 Academy in Kerameikos, central Athens, on Saturday, January 21. The opening act, Thessaloniki-based psychedelic rock band Naxatras, will take the stage at 8.30 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m.

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