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## Key Facts
- Location: Attica, Greece
- Period of prominence: ~508–322 BCE (democratic period)
- Population: ~250,000–300,000 (including slaves and metics) at peak ~430 BCE
- Period of prominence: ~508–322 BCE (democratic period) @t[508 BCE..322 BCE]
- Population: ~250,000–300,000 (including slaves and metics) at peak ~430 BCE @t[~430 BCE]
- Key sites: Acropolis, Agora, Pnyx, Kerameikos
## Major Monuments
- Parthenon: Temple of Athena, built 447–432 BCE under Pericles [^1]
- Parthenon: Temple of Athena, built 447–432 BCE under Pericles @t[447 BCE..432 BCE] [^1]
- Erechtheion: Temple with the Caryatid porch
- Temple of Hephaestus: Best-preserved Greek temple
- Theatre of Dionysus: Birthplace of Greek drama
- Stoa of Attalos: Reconstructed in the Agora
## Historical Significance
- Birthplace of Athenian democracy (~508 BCE, Cleisthenes' reforms)
- Birthplace of Athenian democracy (~508 BCE, Cleisthenes' reforms) @t[~508 BCE]
- Center of philosophy: Socrates, Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum
- Led the Delian League against Persia
- Defeated by Sparta in the Peloponnesian War (404 BCE) [^2]
- Defeated by Sparta in the Peloponnesian War (404 BCE) @t[=404 BCE] [^2]
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[^1]: Hurwit, J. *The Athenian Acropolis* (Cambridge, 1999)