With the rebellion suppressed, the fate of the Mytileneans was in the hands of the Athenian assembly.

SOCRATES: And are you going to get up in the Athenian assembly, and give them advice about writing?

In their distress they turned to Athens for help, and envoys were sent to plead their cause before the Athenian assembly.

Alexander Hamilton said that if every Athenian citizen had been a Socrates, still every Athenian assembly would have been a mob.

The oligarchical conspirators formed themselves into a confederacy, and Pisander was sent to Athens to lay the proposal before the Athenian assembly.

At Malahide Castle, James Murphy commands the stage like Pericles when he appealed to the Athenian assembly for war against the Spartans.

It was a mean state which he hoped to create, equally unlike a Syracusan tyranny or the mob-government of the Athenian assembly.

And what do you say of that other rhetoric which addresses the Athenian assembly and the assemblies of freemen in other states?

The Athenian assembly was at this time led by the demagogue Cleophon, a lamp-maker, known to us by the later comedies of Aristophanes.

This was the meeting place of the Athenian Assembly until the fourth century B.C., when the sessions were transferred to the theater of Dionysus.

Only, its flames are sometimes so ventilated by current events and political developments that the students often assume the functions of the old Athenian Assembly.