Museum
Ancient Agora of Athens
Athens 105 55
Sprawling ruins of a classical city center, where philosophers once debated in the open air.
This guide to the Ancient Agora of Athens centers on the trial of Socrates, an elderly stonemason's son who spent decades in this square stopping strangers to ask uncomfortable questions. It follows the case brought against him for corrupting the youth and worshipping the wrong gods, judged by four hundred Athenian jurors chosen by lottery, and the mix of devotion and resentment he had stirred over a lifetime among the merchants, craftsmen and passersby who once filled this bustling square. Best heard while standing in the open stone expanse where the trial itself took place.
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