Areopagus
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Ryan Horne Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Ryan Horne Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 10, 2025 10:20 PM
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History
Named after a mythical trial of the god Ares, the Areopagus is a rocky outcropping in Athens located to the northwest of the acropolis. The hill was used as a meeting place for the Council of the Areopagus which functioned as a council of elders for the city of Athens. The Areopagus is also traditionally identified as the setting for Paul's sermon to Athens.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/969121823
37.9723721051, 23.7233719877
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Areopagus (550 BC - 330 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- GeoHack Location of Areopagus (550 BC - 330 BC) accuracy: +/- 2000 meters.
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- Ἄρειος Πάγος (Areios Pagos: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - AD 300)
- Areopagus part of (physical/topographic) Athenae (550 BC - 330 BC)
- Bath at northwest foot of the Areopagus located on Areopagus (330 BC - AD 640)
- Omega House located on Areopagus (AD 300 - AD 599)
- Sanctuary of Amynos and Asklepios located on Areopagus (unspecified date range)
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Pleiades
Ryan Horne, Jeffrey Becker, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, and Tom Elliott, 'Areopagus: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/969121823> [accessed: 24 March 2025]
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