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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IvaPan, post: 6484069, member: 78949&quot;]Good point. Although in modern Greek it is only singular (as all Greek names). I have always wondered why in English it is plural, in Bulgarian it is singular (as in Greek) but in Russian it is also plural - Афи́ны. So, it appears to be the archaic form of the name of the city from the times of Homer, also it referred to the whole Attica region:</p><p><a href="https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ἀθῆναι" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ἀθῆναι" rel="nofollow">https://el.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ἀθῆναι</a></p><p>In Greek and in Bulgarian they use the modern form, in English and in Russian - the archaic one.</p><p>So it indeed appears to be a souvenir from Athens using its archaic name and depicting the symbol of the city - an owl, with a horse shoe for luck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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