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The Agora

The Agora. Socrates in the Agora.

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The Agora

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  1. The Agora

  2. Socrates in the Agora “Socrates went in the morning to the places for walking and the gymnasia; at the time when the market was full he was to be seen there; and the rest of the day he was where he was likely to meet the greatest number of people; he was generally engaged in discourse, and all who pleased were at liberty to hear him." -- Xenophon

  3. SOCRATES “THE UNEXAMINED LIFE IS NOT WORTH LIVING”

  4. SOCRATES “By all means get married. If you get a good wife you will become happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”

  5. The Acropolis from the Agora

  6. ALTAR OF THE TWELVE GODS

  7. MONUMENT OF EPONYMOUS HEROES

  8. COLOSSAL FIGURES OF GIANTS & TRITONS

  9. BOULEUTERION Council of 500

  10. THOLOS BOULEUTERION Council of 500

  11. THOLOS Where Socrates served on the Council of 50

  12. ROYAL STOA Where Socrates walked to question Athenians about the “good life.”

  13. ROYAL STOA

  14. STOA OF ZEUS

  15. The Law Court

  16. OSTRACA

  17. Socrates’ Prison

  18. Possible Cell Where Socrates Took the Hemlock

  19. THE LEGACY OF SOCRATES 1. Shifts explanations from mythical to logical, rational inquiry. 2. Shifts the focus from Nature/Cosmos to the human individual. 3. Extends the idea of a Good Person from the few (warrior elite) to everyone willing to examine himself critically, seek the truth, and discover the right thing to do. 4. Dies not for Honor and Glory but for personal principles arrived at through a method of rational inquiry.

  20. SOCRATES 5. Care for the soul is more important than “external goods” 6. Never do wrong. 7. Seek TRUTH which is the GOOD which is BEAUTIFUL

  21. Pericles on The Legacy of Athens “To sum up: I say that Athens is the school of Hellas, and that the individual Athenian in his own person seems to have the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with the utmost versatility and grace. This is no passing and idle word, but truth and fact; and the assertion is verified by the position to which these qualities have raised the state.”

  22. The School of Athens

  23. τοτέλος (the end)

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