This year the olympics are going to be held in Athens. I can't wait until they start because I love watching the olympics.I especailly the diving because I like to swim an dive.I also like watching baseball and basketball because like both sports and sometimes they get very exciting.
The Acropolis hill, so called the "Sacred Rock" of Athens, is the most important site of the city. During Perikles' Golden Age, ancient Greek civilization was represented in an ideal way on the hill and some of the architectural masterpieces of the period were erected on its ground.
The first habitation remains on the Acropolis date from the Neolithic period. Over the centuries, the rocky hill was continuously used either as a cult place or as a residential area or both. The inscriptions on the numerous and precious offerings to the sanctuary of Athena (marble korai, bronze and clay statuettes and vases) indicate that the cult of the city's patron goddess was established as early as the Archaic period.
The city of Corinth was siutated on the Isthmus of Corinth, which joined the Peloponnesus to the mainland of Greece. In 146 BCE, because of its rebellion against Rome, the Roman general L. Mummius completely destroyed the city, leveling it. The site remained uninhabited for a century, when the city was refounded as a Roman colony in 46 BCE by Julius Caesar; the name of the city was Laus Iulia Corinthus "Corinth, the praise of Julius". Corinth became a major center of commerce in the Roman province of Achaia.