Athens

city and capital of Clarke county, Ga.; on the Oconee river and several railroads; 67 miles H. of Atlanta; is principally engaged in cotton-growing, trade, and manufacturing; and is the seat of the State University, State College of Agriculture, State Norma! School, and Luey Cobb and Knox institutes. Pop. (1910) 14,913.: Athens, anciently the capital of Attica and center of Greek culture, now the capital of the Kingdom of Greece. It is situated in the central plain of Attica, about 4 miles from the Saronic Gulf or Gulf of Atgina, an arm of the ASgean Sea running in between the mainland and the Pelo- ‘ponnesus. It is said to have been founded about _1550 B. oc. by Cecrops, the mythical Pelasgian hero, and to have borne the name Cecropia until under Erechtheus it received the name of Athens in honor of Athene. It disputed with Sparta the supremacy of Greece, which was then virtually the civilized world, and was beaten in the struggle. It remained, however, the centre of art and culture until long after the rise of Rome, to which with the rest of Greece it became subject. _ The modern city mostly lies northward and eastward from the Acropolis, and consists mainly of straight and well baile streets, | the principal buiidings are the royal palace, a stately building with a facade of Pentelic marble (completed in 1843), the university, the academy, public library, theater, and observatory. ‘The university was opened in 1836, and has 1,400 students. There are valuable museums, in particular the National Museum, and that in the Polytechnic School, which embraces the Schliemann collection, ete. These are constantly being added to by excavations. ‘There are four foreign archeological schools or institutes, the French, German, American, and British. ‘Tramways have been made in the principal streets, and the city is connected by railey -with its port, the Pireus. Pop. 111,486.