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Contents 1 Civilisation/Civilization? 2 Image of the Byzantine Church in this article 3 Image of the Roman Agora 4 Typos 5 Artists and Philosophers section 6 Athens the oldest? 7 Half a person? 8 Mistakes

[edit] Civilisation/Civilization?

In the introduction, should the article refer to "Western Civilisation" or "Western Civilization"? Bigdaddy1204 14:15, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image of the Byzantine Church in this article

I have inserted a photograph I took when I was in Athens during April 2004. Bigdaddy1204 15:31, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image of the Roman Agora

Changed "The ruins of the Agora, the commercial centre of ancient Athens" to "The ruins of the Roman Agora, the second commercial centre of ancient Athens.". The image shows the Roman Agora, not the Ancient Agora commonly refered to as "Agora". The latters was the first commercial centre of Athens. --Evzone 03:53, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Typos

Seem to be a lot of spurious characters and whatnot.

[edit] Artists and Philosophers section

As far as I know, Aristotle, Plato, and Xenophon did not write during the 5th century (Aristotle wasn't even alive then), as the beginning of this section implies. Iridius 05:31, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Athens the oldest?

The History of Athens is the longest of any city in Europe:

I'm prepped to be shot down here, but Argos is still a city, and isn't it MUCH older? You could rejoinder that it's not on the same site as ancient Argos (its citadel) but neither, really, is Athens. Maybe the wording might be "the longest of any major city in Europe"? Skookum1 18:48, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Half a person?

"At its peak, in the 5th and 4th centuries BC, Athens and its suburbs probably had approximately 1,527,327.23 inhabitants. " According to that Athens and the surrounding areas had .23 people. Now how does that even happen????? I can understand 1,577,327 people, but not .23. El Greco 16:18, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mistakes

Jizzers? Thats a Greek word? And Alexander in the 5th century? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cpom (talk • contribs) 13:28, 3 December 2006 (UTC).