Ἀθήνας (Athenas)

Ἀθήνας is an Ancient Greek form of Ἀθῆναι, meaning “Athens”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

It can also be a form of Ἀθήνη, “Athena”.

Found 833 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.31.3: οἱ δὲ Κορίνθιοι πυθόμενοι ταῦτα ἦλθον καὶ αὐτοὶ ἐς τὰς Ἀθήνας πρεσβευσόμενοι, ὅπως μὴ σφίσι πρὸς τῷ Κερκυραίων ναυτικῷ καὶ τὸ αὐτῶν προσγενόμενον ἐμπόδιον γένηται θέσθαι τὸν πόλεμον ᾗ βούλονται.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene 41·2: … τῷ τιμωρήσασθαι, ἐγὼ δʼ ὑπέρ τʼ ἐκείνου καὶ τῶν ἄλλων Περσῶν οὐ πρότερον παύσομαι, πρὶν ἕλω τε καὶ πυρώσω τὰς Αθήνας. οἵ γε ἐμέ τε καὶ πατέρα τὸν ἐμὸν ὑπῆρξαν ἄδικα ποιοῦντες· πρῶτα μὲν εἰς Σάρδεις ἐλθόντες ἅμα Ἀρισταγόρᾳ τῷ Μ …

All forms of Ἀθῆναι (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.