Areopagus
The Areopagus was a principal council of ancient Athens, later serving mainly as a judicial body responsible for cases of homicide, wounding, and certain religious offenses.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: ajbear, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Parthenon and Platonic Academy.
Parthenon
Photo: Elena Tatiana Chis, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Parthenon is a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena. Its decorative sculptures are considered some of the high points of classical Greek art, and the Parthenon is considered an enduring symbol of ancient Greece, Western civilization, and democracy.
Platonic Academy
Archaeological site
Photo: Raphael, Public domain.
The Academy was founded by Plato in ca. 387 BC in Athens. Aristotle studied there for twenty years before founding his own school, the Lyceum. The Academy persisted throughout the Hellenistic period as a skeptical school, until coming to an end after the death of Philo of Larissa in 83 BC.
Erechtheion
Photo: Chepry, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Erechtheion or Temple of Athena Polias is an ancient Greek Ionic temple, on the north side of the Acropolis, Athens, that was primarily dedicated to the goddess Athena.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Athens and Palaio Faliro.
Athens
Photo: Ggia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Athens is the capital city of Greece with a metropolitan population of 3.15 million inhabitants. It was a major cultural, political and religious centre of Classical Greece, a place that deeply influenced the course of Western civilization.
Palaio Faliro
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Palaio Faliro is a municipality in Attica on the Saronic Gulf coast. It is part of the South Suburbs of Athens.
Kallithea
Suburb
Photo: Dimorsitanos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kallithea is a suburb in Athens agglomeration and a municipality in south Athens regional unit. It is the eighth largest municipality in Greece, as well as the fourth biggest in the Athens urban area.
Areopagus
- Type: Peak
- Description: rock outcropping in Athens, associated with ancient legislative and judicial bodies
- Categories: hill, rock formation, historic site, and landform
- Location: Athens, Athens Prefecture, Attica, Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.9724° or 37° 58′ 21″ northLongitude
23.7231° or 23° 43′ 23″ eastOpen location code
8G95XPCF+X6OpenStreetMap ID
node 3242492950OpenStreetMap feature
historic=yesOpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakWikidata ID
Q202487
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wolof—“Areopagus” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Areopagos”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἄρειος πάγος”
- Arabic: “أريوباغوس”
- Arabic: “اريوباغوس”
- Armenian: “Արեոպագոս”
- Azerbaijani: “Areopaq”
- Bashkir: “Ареопаг”
- Basque: “Areopago”
- Basque: “Areopagoa”
- Belarusian: “Арэапаг”
- Breton: “Areopagos”
- Breton: “Areospagos”
- Bulgarian: “Ареопаг”
- Catalan: “Areòpag”
- Cebuano: “Areopagus”
- Chinese: “亚略巴古”
- Chinese: “亞略巴古”
- Croatian: “Areopag”
- Czech: “Areopág”
- Dutch: “Areopaag”
- Dutch: “Areopagos”
- Dutch: “Areopagus”
- Esperanto: “Areopago”
- Finnish: “Areiopagi”
- Finnish: “Areopagi”
- Finnish: “Areopagos”
- Finnish: “Areopagus”
- French: “Aéropage”
- French: “Aéropagite”
- French: “Areopage”
- French: “Aréopage”
- Galician: “Areópago”
- Georgian: “არეოპაგი”
- German: “Areiopag”
- German: “Areopag”
- German: “Areopagos”
- Greek: “Άρειος Πάγος”
- Hebrew: “אראוס פאגוס”
- Hebrew: “אראופגוס”
- Hebrew: “אריוס פגוס”
- Hindi: “अरियोपागु”
- Hungarian: “Areioszpagosz”
- Ido: “Areopago”
- Indonesian: “Areopagos”
- Indonesian: “Areopagus”
- Italian: “Areopago”
- Japanese: “アレオパゴス会議”
- Japanese: “アレオパゴス評議会”
- Kazakh: “Ареопаг”
- Kirghiz: “Ареопаг”
- Korean: “아레오바고”
- Korean: “아레이오스 파고스”
- Latin: “Areopagus”
- Latvian: “Areopāgs”
- Lithuanian: “Areopagas”
- Mongolian: “Ареопаг”
- Mongolian: “Ареопагус”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Areios Pagos”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Areopagen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Areopagos”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Areopagus”
- Norwegian: “Areopagos”
- Persian: “آرئوپاژ”
- Persian: “آریوپاگوس”
- Persian: “آریوس باغوس”
- Persian: “ارئوپاژ”
- Persian: “اریوپاگوس”
- Persian: “اریوس باغوس”
- Polish: “Areopag”
- Polish: “Rada Areopagu”
- Portuguese: “Areópago”
- Portuguese: “Areopagus”
- Romanian: “Areopag”
- Russian: “ареопаг”
- Russian: “Ареопаг”
- Serbian: “Areopag”
- Serbian: “Ареопаг”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Areopag”
- Slovak: “Areopág”
- Slovenian: “Areopag”
- Spanish: “Aeropagita”
- Spanish: “Aeropago”
- Spanish: “Aerópago”
- Spanish: “Areopagita”
- Spanish: “Areopago”
- Spanish: “Areópago”
- Swahili: “Areopago”
- Swedish: “Aeropagrådet”
- Swedish: “Areopagen”
- Tamil: “அரயோப்பாகு மேடை”
- Turkish: “Ares Tepesi”
- Ukrainian: “Ареопаг”
- Urdu: “ایریوپاگوس”
- Uzbek: “Areopag”
- Wolof: “Areyopas”
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