List of Famous people with last name Athens

Irene of Athens

First Name Irene
Born on January 1, 0752
Died on August 9, 0803 (aged 51)

Irene of Athens, surnamed Sarantapechaina (Σαρανταπήχαινα), was Byzantine empress by marriage to Emperor Leo IV from 775 to 780, regent during the minority of their son Constantine VI from 780 until 790, co-regent from 792 until 797, and finally sole ruler and first empress regnant of the Byzantine Empire from 797 to 802. A member of the politically prominent Sarantapechos family, she was selected as Leo IV's bride for unknown reasons in 768. Even though her husband was an iconoclast, she harbored iconophile sympathies. During her rule as regent, she called the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, which condemned iconoclasm as heretical and brought an end to the first iconoclast period (730–787).

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Lamia of Athens

First Name Lamia
Born on November 30, -0341
Died on January 1, -0303 (aged 38)

Lamia of Athens was a celebrated courtesan, and mistress of Demetrius Poliorcetes.

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Cylon of Athens

First Name Cylon
Born on January 1, -0700
Died on January 1, -0700

Cylon was an Athenian associated with the first reliably dated event in Athenian history, the Cylonian Affair, an attempted seizure of power in the city.

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William II of Athens

First Name William
Last Name Athens
Born on January 1, 1312
Died on August 22, 1338 (aged 26)
Born in Italy, Sicily

William was the third son of Frederick III of Sicily and Eleanor of Anjou. He inherited the Duchy of Athens after the death of his elder brother Manfred on 9 November 1317.

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Manfred of Athens

First Name Manfred
Last Name Athens
Born on January 1, 1306
Died on November 9, 1317 (aged 11)
Born in Italy, Sicily

Manfred, infante of Sicily, was the second son of Frederick III of Sicily and Eleanor of Anjou.

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Ariston of Athens

First Name Ariston

Ariston of Collytus, was the father of the Greek philosopher Plato. Legend holds that he was descended from Codrus, the ancient king of Athens. He supposedly could trace his ancestry to the God of the sea Poseidon through Codrus and Melanthus. Diogenes Laërtius on the authority of Speusippus and others, relates a story that "Ariston made violent love to Perictione, then in her bloom, and failed to win her; and that, when he ceased to offer violence, Apollo appeared to him in a dream, whereupon he left her unmolested until her child was born". Ariston died when Plato was still a boy, and his mother Perictione remarried Pyrilampes, a friend of the Athenian politician Pericles.

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Ameinias of Athens

First Name Ameinias
Born on January 1, -0600 (age 2624)

Ameinias or Aminias was a younger brother of the playwright Aeschylus and of a hero of the battle of Marathon named Cynaegirus. He also had a sister, named Philopatho, who was the mother of the Athenian tragic poet Philocles. His father was Euphorion. Ameinias was from the Attica deme of Pallene according to Herodotus, or of that of Decelea according to Plutarch. He distinguished himself at the battle of Salamis as a trireme commander. His brother Aeschylus, also fought at the battle.

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Eurydice of Athens

First Name Eurydice
Born on January 1, -0400 (age 2424)

Eurydice was an Athenian woman of a family descended from the great Miltiades.

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Ploutarchos of Athens

Born on November 30, 0349
Died on November 30, 0430 (aged 81)

Plutarch of Athens was a Greek philosopher and Neoplatonist who taught in Athens at the beginning of the 5th century. He reestablished the Platonic Academy there and became its leader. He wrote commentaries on Aristotle and Plato, emphasizing the doctrines which they had in common.

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Lycurgus of Athens

First Name Lycurgus
Born on November 30, -0391
Died on November 30, -0325 (aged 66)

Lycurgus was a logographer in Ancient Greece. He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third century BC.

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