ฮฮตฮนฮฑ ฯฮฟฯ (Ya sou) / ฮฮตฮนฮฑ ฯฮฑฯ (Ya sas โ formal)
How locals say hello in Athens
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The Acropolis is best visited at opening (8am) or 2 hours before closing. Evening light is spectacular from Filopappou Hill.
The Acropolis rock has been continuously inhabited since at least 3000 BCE. Ancient myth says Athena won the city by offering the olive tree, defeating Poseidon's gift of a saltwater spring. Under Cleisthenes in 508 BCE it became the world's first democracy, and under Pericles it built the Parthenon and produced Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, and Herodotus within a single remarkable century. The words politics, democracy, philosophy, and theatre all originated here.
Athens has been continuously inhabited for over 3,400 years โ making it one of the world's oldest cities.
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