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Athens is famous for its abundant historical relics, and it is called to”the cradle of European civilization”,and it have a five thousands years history just from 8th century B.C, the hegemon of ancient Greek alliance is ancient Athens, which was built by Ionians. Ancient Athens is the origin of western culture, Athenian have made great contributions in art, philosophy, law and science.5th century B.C is the most prosperous period, many great masters were born or lived there, for example, the great tragedy writer Euripides,the great comedy writer Aristophanes ,the philosopher Socrates,Plato,Aristotle and the historian Herodotus etc.Athens is the center of Greek cultural relics, it have lots of ancient cultural relics,The Athenian museum is world-famous.
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