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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 ...
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 Areios Pagos is named after the first court of androfonies (crimes of murder), founded between 1500-1300 BC by Theseus and King Cecrops, which was situated on the rocky hill named after the god Ares in Athens. This highest court of antiquity was named the Areios Pagos Parliament and consisted of members for life, the Areopagites.
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.
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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 ...
View of the ancient agora. The temple of Hephaestus is to the left and the Stoa of Attalos to the right.. The ancient Agora of Athens (also called the Classical Agora) is the best-known example of an ancient Greek agora, located to the northwest of the Acropolis and bounded on the south by the hill of the Areopagus and on the west by the hill known as the Agoraios Kolonos, also called Market ...
Engraved plaque containing Apostle Paul's sermon, at the Areopagus, Athens, Greece. The Areopagus sermon refers to a sermon delivered by Apostle Paul in Athens, at the Areopagus, and recounted in Acts 17:16–34. [1][2] The Areopagus sermon is the most dramatic and most fully-reported speech of the missionary career of Saint Paul and followed a ...