File:View of the Acropolis from the summit of the Areopagus on February 25, 2021.jpg
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[edit]DescriptionView of the Acropolis from the summit of the Areopagus on February 25, 2021.jpg |
English: "The Areopagus, a rocky outcrop approximately 115 metres high, is situated between three other hills, the Acropolis, the Pnyx, and the Kolonos Agoraios. Its name probably derives from Ares, the god of war, and the Ares-Erinyes or Semnes (also called the Eumenides), undergound goddesses of punishment and revenge. A judicial body, the Areopagus Council, met on this hill to preside over cases of murder, sacrilege, and arson. The Areopagus was also a place of religious worship. Among the several sanctuaries located here was that of the Semnes or Eumenides, probably located in a cavity at the northeast side of the hill.
In the Mycenaean and Geometric periods (1600 - 700 B.C.) the northern slope of the hill served as a cemetery which contained both vaulted tombs and simple cist graves. From the 6th cent. B.C. onwards the hillside as a whole became a residential quarter belonging to the fashionable district of Melite. Cuttings still evident in the bedrock attest to the district’s many roads, wells, drains, reservoirs, floors, and irregular buildings. Access to these neighborhood was provided by stairways cut right into the living rock. By the Late Roman (4th - 6th cent. A.D.) four luxury houses, which probably served as philosophical schools - located at the north slope of the hill - had supplanted the houses of the Classical era. The Areopagus is also associated with the spread of Christianity into Greece. Some time near the middle of the 1st cent. A.D. the Apostle Paul is said to have converted a number of Athenians by teaching the tenets of the new religion from the summit of the hill. Among the converts was Dionysius the Areopagite, the patron saint of the city of Athens, who according to tradition, was the city’s first bishop. Remains of a church named in his honour are preserved on the northern slope of the hill. The church of St. Dionysius the Areopagite was a three-aisled basilica with a narthex at west, central apse, diakonikon (the apse terminating the southern aisle) and prothesis (the apse terminating the northern aisle). Built in the middle of the 16th century, it was probably destroyed by an earthquake in 1601. The church and grounds were completely enclosed to the north and west by the monumental Archbishop’s Palace. This two-storey Palace was built between the middle of the 16th and end of the 17th century and and consisted of a complex of rooms which included warehouses, a kitchen, a dining hall, and two winepresses. " Text: Information board on the summit of the Areopagus. |
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Source | https://www.flickr.com/photos/140911325@N02/50980020652/ |
Author | George E. Koronaios |
Camera location | 37° 58′ 20.49″ N, 23° 43′ 24.01″ E | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 37.972358; 23.723335 |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by George E. Koronaios at https://flickr.com/photos/140911325@N02/50980020652. It was reviewed on 25 February 2021 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0. |
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Author | george e. koronaios |
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Date and time of data generation | 15:28, 25 February 2021 |
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Date and time of digitizing | 15:28, 25 February 2021 |
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