“A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea,” Benjamin Disraeli wrote in 1844. “Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.”
Every year, more than 6 million travelers visit the sprawling city named for the mighty Athena. They come, sometimes without knowing, to discover the eternal soul of the place that poet and philosopher John Milton called “the mother of art and eloquence.”
