Crossword-Solution: ATHENAI 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The ancients, who knew the laws of memory, grouped the seven cities that contended for the honor of being Homer's birthplace in a line thus given by Aulus Gellius: Smurna, Rodos, Colophon, Salamin, Ios, Argos, Athenai.

Kindly, gentle powers, Offspring of primal darkness, hear my prayer! Hear it, Athenai, of all cities queen, Great Pallas' foster-city! Look with ruth On this poor shadow of great Oedipus, This fading semblance of his kingly form.

Euthukles shall write it down for her, and they will go back to the night they heard Euripides was dead: "One year ago, Athenai still herself." Together she and Euthukles had mused, together glorified their poet.

This, by "Singing, we two, its own song back again Up to that face from which flowed beauty--face Now abler to see triumph and take love Than when it glorified Athenai once." Yes: they two would read together _Herakles_, the play of which Euripides himself had given her the tablets, in commemoration of the Adventure at Syracuse.

The priest lived in a small second-floor apartment near the corner of Brasil and Athenai, alone since his wife had died ten years before.