Ancient Agora is the most popular of its kind, thanks in part to its historical significance. Socrates used to lecture ... Free admission days to this central Athens site are offered on select ...

Visiting the Ancient Agora of Greece is an outdoor adventure ... Peisistratus destroyed them in the 6th century BC. Athens’s ...

In ancient Greece, wealthy men often gathered for ... bumping into them in the public meeting place of classical Athens known as the agora, reconstructed in this illustration.

During Socrates' youth Athens was a city at the height of its power and the intellectual center of the Greek world. The spirit of openness which democracy encouraged had given rise to new fields ...

The city hummed with great thinkers like Socrates and his opponents ... designs of Phidias and the new Parthenon. Athens had become the school of Greece. Pericles' was by now far too popular ...