Athens of America
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There are those of us who think that Boston - the Athens of America - is the US's greatest city.
From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2015
Geoffrey Wolff Warren, Vt. Without a cashflow, Boston's shows can't go on Boston used to call itself the Athens of America.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a result, Annapolis�which once was proudly dubbed the Athens of America, but is better known today as Crabtown, after the Chesapeake crustaceans for which it is famed�fairly steamed with bipartisan mutual admiration.
From Time Magazine Archive
Within 200 miles of Boston, the Athens of America, are some 250 colleges.
From Time Magazine Archive
The fame of the Seven extended into the neighboring States; Boston, not yet the Athens of America, confessed "that Pegasus was not backed by better horsemen from any part of the Union."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 by Various
