Athens, Greece

[Athens, Greece]

Aeneus Karpusi
-Athens, Greece-

"Για να διατηρήσετε τους θεούς για τα παιδιά μας, εξακολουθώ να είμαι μόνος."

Name:
Aeneus Karpusi
Origin:
Athens, Greece
Gender:
Male
Orientation:
Bisexual
Religion:
Hellenic Neopaganism
Birthday:
May 21, 1400 BC
Age:
24
Languages spoken:
Greek, Arabic, Turkish

Personality:
Much like Heracles, Aeneus is very calm, very even tempered. Much rather being the sort to spend time with his books, it's rather hard to get the rather old city to leave his library. Of course, the fact of the matter is, he'd do anything for Heracles...because there seems to be some sort of special relationship between the two. Aeneus is very bright, the sort of young man you'd expect to see talking with Plato and Socrates about philosophy. It's quite the game to him, and he can always be seen talking to tourists about the Gods when they ask. Well verse in the Old religion of Athens, Aeneus honestly misses the days when people knelt before Almighty Zeus, but hey, times change.

He's changed a lot as well, though modernizing doesn't seem to be in the young man's interest. He still lives in a home styled after the old Greek manner, though he's gotten a cell phone and a computer. He's technologically challenged, and often can be seen throwing the phone against something and cursing at it loudly in Greek. He enjoys long walks, and taking the time to breathe, and also enjoys helping farmers work the land.

Likes:
+Farm Work
+Fresh Produce
+the Gods
+Heracles
+Men more than women
+Old books, and the sheer smell of them~

Dislikes:
+....Turkey.
+Being alone, though he is almost all the time
+Christianity
+Green beans
+Any Apple that's not green or red. 8T
+Athletic activities. He likes farming.

Appearance:
5'9"
Blond hair
Tanned skin
Blue eyes
Muscular build

Relationships:
Greece: He seems to have a very special relationship with Heracles, a bit stronger of nature than the man. He visits often, and sometimes doesn't leave for days on end.

Turkey: Athens has avoided meeting Turkey as long as he can. He's scared, thanks to some of the stories Heracles has told him, and tries his best to stay out of the other's way.

History:
The oldest known human presence in Athens is the Cave of Schist which has been dated to between the 11th and 7th millennium BC. Athens has been continuously inhabited for at least 7000 years. By 1400 BC the settlement had become an important centre of the Mycenaean civilization and the Acropolis was the site of a major Mycenaean fortress whose remains can be recognised from sections of the characteristic Cyclopean walls.[18] Unlike other Mycenaean centers, such as Mycenae and Pylos, it is not known whether Athens suffered destruction in about 1200 BC, an event often attributed to a Dorian invasion, and the Athenians always maintained that they were "pure" Ionians with no Dorian element. However, Athens, like many other Bronze Age settlements, went into economic decline for around 150 years following this. Iron Age burials, in the Kerameikos and other locations, are often richly provided for and demonstrate that from 900 BC onwards Athens was one of the leading centers of trade and prosperity in the region. The leading position of Athens may well have resulted from its central location in the Greek world, its secure stronghold on the Acropolis and its access to the sea, which gave it a natural advantage over inland rivals such as Thebes and Sparta.

By the 6th century BC, widespread social unrest led to the reforms of Solon. These would pave the way for the eventual introduction of democracy by Cleisthenes in 508 BC. Athens had by this time become a significant naval power with a large fleet, and helped the rebellion of the Ionian cities against Persian rule. In the ensuing Greco-Persian Wars Athens, together with Sparta, led the coalition of Greek states that repelled the Persians, defeating them decisively at Marathon in 490 BC and crucially at Salamis in 480 BC. The decades that followed became known as the Golden Age of Athenian democracy, during which time Athens became the leading city of Ancient Greece, with its cultural achievements laying the foundations of Western civilization.

The playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides all lived and worked in Athens during this time, as did the historians Herodotus and Thucydides, the physician Hippocrates, and the philosopher Socrates. Guided by Pericles, who promoted the arts and fostered democracy, Athens embarked on an ambition building program that saw the construction of the Acropolis of Athens (including the Parthenon), as well as empire-building via the Delian League. Originally intended as an association of Greek city-states to continue the fight against the Persians, the league soon turned into a vehicle for Athens' own imperial ambitions. The resulting tensions brought about the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), in which Athens was defeated by its rival Sparta. By the end of Late Antiquity the city experienced decline followed by recovery in the second half of the Middle Byzantine Period (9th–10th centuries AD), and was relatively prosperous during the Crusades, benefiting from Italian trade. In 1453 it was conquered by the Ottoman Empire and entered a long period of decline.

Following the Greek War of Independence, Athens was chosen as the capital of the newly independent Greek state in 1834, largely due to historical and sentimental reasons. At the time it was a town of modest size built around the foot of the Acropolis. The first King of Greece, Otto of Bavaria, commissioned the architects Stamatios Kleanthis and Gustav Schaubert to design a modern city plan fit for the capital of a state.

The first modern city plan consisted of a triangle defined by the Acropolis, the ancient cemetery of Kerameikos and the new palace of the Bavarian king (now housing the Greek Parliament), so as to highlight the continuity between modern and ancient Athens. Neoclassicism, the international style of this epoch, was the architectural style through which Bavarian, French and Greek architects such as Hansen, Klenze, Boulanger or Kaftantzoglou designed the first important public buildings of the new capital. In 1896 Athens hosted the first modern Olympic Games. During the 1920s a number of Greek refugees, expelled from Asia Minor after the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922), swelled Athens' population; nevertheless it was most particularly following World War II, and from the 1950s and 1960s, that the population of the city exploded, and Athens experienced a gradual expansion in all directions. In the 1980s it became evident that smog from factories and an ever increasing fleet of automobiles, as well as a lack of adequate free space due to congestion, had evolved into the city's most important challenge. A series of anti-pollution measures taken by the city's authorities in the 1990s, combined with a substantial improvement of the city's infrastructure (including the Attiki Odos motorway, the expansion of the Athens Metro, and the new Athens International Airport), considerably alleviated pollution and transformed Athens into a much more functional city. In 2004 Athens hosted the 2004 Summer Olympics with great success.

Hobbies:
Farming
Reading
Transcription
Bathing
Sleeping
Taking care of animals

Random Quirks:
He's terrified of spiders, and despises yellow apples....for some reason.
Can often be seen shouting at tech in Greek. He doesn't get that technology can't talk back....

Roleplay Sample:

See Los Angeles

Roleplayer:
LIET 8'D

Password:
I Love Hetalia~

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[America]

Looks awesome, and so sorry that this took so long! >A<;;

Approved!: 1/2

[Hiroshima]

Beautiful, as always, love, and I'm sorry this took so long to get to. D:

Accepted, 2/2!