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Athens, Crotone, Jerez de la Frontera and Ojén. Dionysius the Areopagite (/ daɪəˈnɪsiəs /; Greek: Διονύσιος ὁ Ἀρεοπαγίτης Dionysios ho Areopagitēs) was an Athenian judge at the Areopagus Court in Athens, who lived in the first century. A convert to Christianity, he is venerated as a saint by multiple denominations.
The Areopagus (/ æriˈɒpəɡəs /) is a prominent rock outcropping located northwest of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. Its English name is the Late Latin composite form of the Greek name Areios Pagos, translated "Hill of Ares " (Ancient Greek: Ἄρειος Πάγος). The name Areopagus also referred, in classical times, to the Athenian ...
Since. July 25, 2023. The Supreme Civil and Criminal Court of Greece (Greek: Άρειος Πάγος, Areios Pagos, "Areopagus") is the supreme court of Greece for civil and criminal law. In Greece, the decisions of the Supreme Court are final. However, since Greece is a member state of the Council of Europe, cases ruled on by the Greek high ...
1842 daguerreotype by Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (the earliest known photography of the site) Idealized reconstruction of the Acropolis and Areios Pagos in Athens, Leo von Klenze, 1846. During subsequent years, the Acropolis was a site of bustling human activity with many Byzantine, Frankish, and Ottoman structures.
Namely, the Heliaia functioned as a court for litigation of public, criminal and private international law. [ε] Taking the jurisdiction over the so-called graphe paranomon, the Heliaia replaced the Areios Pagos in the execution of the legal control of the decisions of the ecclesia. Until Ephialtes' reforms the Areios Pagos had the duty of ...
Arius Didymus. Arius Didymus (Greek: Ἄρειος Δίδυμος Areios Didymos; fl. 1st century BC) was a Stoic philosopher and teacher of Augustus. Fragments of his handbooks summarizing Stoic and Peripatetic doctrines are preserved by Stobaeus and Eusebius.
Ares (/ ˈɛəriːz /; Ancient Greek: Ἄρης, Árēs [árɛːs]) is the Greek god of war and courage. He is one of the Twelve Olympians, and the son of Zeus and Hera. The Greeks were ambivalent towards him.
Zeus Areius. Areius (Ancient Greek: Ἀρεῖος) was a cultic epithet of the Greek god Zeus, which may mean either "the warlike god" (in the sense of "like Ares ") or "the propitiating and atoning god" (as Areia in the case of Athena). In the myth of Oenomaus, this mythological king sacrificed to Zeus Areius whenever he entered upon a ...