place
Athens
Chief city of classical Greece and standard of pure Attic Greek, against which Pliny measures Arrius Antoninus's Greek.
Reading notes
- The Letters §4.3.5 Athens
Standard of pure Attic Greek; Pliny says not even Athens is as Attic as Antoninus's Greek.
- The Letters §7.25.4 Athens
The great city of Greece, byword for learning and culture.