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areopagus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Areopagus \Ar`e*op"a*gus\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, and ? ?, hill of Ares (Mars' Hill).] The highest judicial court at Athens. Its sessions were held on Mars' Hill. Hence, any high court or tribunal
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, Greek, Areios pagos "the hill of Ares," west of the Acropolis in Athens, where the highest judicial court sat; second element from pagos "rocky hill." Sense extended to "any important tribunal."
Wikipedia
The Areopagus is a prominent rock outcropping located northwest of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. Its English name is the composite form of the Greek name Areios Pagos, translated " Ares Rock" . In classical times, it functioned as the court for trying deliberate homicide. Ares was supposed to have been tried here by the gods for the murder of Poseidon's son Alirrothios (a typical example of an aetiological myth).
The Areopagus is a proposed 16th century society or club dedicated to the reformation of English poetry. The club may have involved figures such as Edmund Spenser, Gabriel Harvey, Edward Dyer, and Sir Phillip Sidney. The existence of the Areopagus as a formal society was first noted by H. R. Fox Bourne in 1862 in his Memoir of Sir Philip Sidney. There is no direct evidence that the group was more than an idea found in the correspondence between Spenser and Harvey, and if it existed its membership is uncertain.
Areopagus was the supreme court in ancient Athens.
Aeropagus may also refer to:
- Areopagus (poetry), a 16th-century literary movement
- Areopagus of Eastern Continental Greece, a regional government during the Greek War of Independence
- Court of Cassation (Greece), the modern Greek supreme court
Usage examples of "areopagus".
The female portion of the academy, disciplined by the fashionable example of the countess and the queen to a noble grace of bearing, a flattering condescension, mount the dais, an areopagus sometimes sixty strong.
Athenian public, and hold that it was before the court of the Areopagus that he was asked to expound his views.
He delivered himself by appealing to the Areopagus, and proving that he had never been initiated.
It is a question for the consensus of the most gifted and impartial minds, the very Areopagus of Humanity, to decide.
The third girl is on her feet, dancing before this areopagus of idiots, with their lanky locks and pot-hats.
Nor would Areopagus or Akropolis be puzzled so much had St Paul preached to them the modern European Christianity with its complicated spirit of all kinds of compromises with Heaven and Hell, compromise with the State, Plutocracy, Nationalism, Imperialism, Conquest, War, Diplomacy, Secular Philosophy, Secular Science, Agnostic Parliaments, Tribal Chauvinism, Education, Officialism, Bureaucracy, etc.
As this space became filled, they placed their ladders a little further from the road, in the Aesculapieum to the right and by the Areopagus to the left.
So we have it located within narrow limits, somewhere in the space bounded on the east by the eastern limit of the agora in Ceramicus, south by the Areopagus, west by the Pnyx and the Hill of the Nymphs, and north by the Dipylum.
Wherefore Papinian declares it is better to give false judgment than none at all, seeing how men without justice are no better than wild beasts in the woods, whereas by justice is made manifest their nobleness and dignity, as is seen by the example of the Judges of the Areopagus, who were held in special honour among the Athenians.
There they sat, still and solemn as the judges of the Areopagus, not relieving the cruel tension by the faintest indication of a smile or a frown.
Thus not only the archonship, but consequently the Council of Areopagus, was thrown open to them.