Possible Clues:

• 1896 Olympics host
• Part of Attica then — some city!
• Birthplace of Plato and Aristophanes
• Hasten around capital city
• Ordering of essential bits of cash as foreign capital
• Complex 'neath southern capital city
• Article on the New Style capital
• European capital named for a goddess of wisdom
• Capital again in the grip of poisonous element
• Byron wanted an organ returned from its maid