Athenian vase decoration was in the black-figure style, which had been brought from Corinth to Athens about 625 BC and blended with the more linear and larger-scale Athenian style.

Among masterpieces are the François Vase made in 560 BC by Ergotinus and painted by Clitias (Museo Archeologico, Florence), the Dionysus Cup by Exekias (Glyptothek), and works by two of the most distinguished painters in the black-figure style, Lydos and the Amasis Painter (After Microsoft Encarta 1996).

Its walls were built on a layer of limestone rock overlooking the city.

They consisted of either three tragedies or three comedies followed by a short satyr farce.

The army consisted of horsemen and hoplites, footsoldiers.

Democracy, philosophy, astrology, biology, mathematics, physics, and the theatre are only a few of its contributions to us. Words and thoughts from great men such as Plato, Socrates, Pythagoras, and Aristotle are still taught in universities to this day.