NOUN
- the highest governmental assembly in ancient Athens (later a judicial court)
- a hill to the to the west of the Athenian acropolis where met the highest governmental council of ancient Athens and later a judicial court
How To Use Areopagus In A Sentence
- The fundamental structure of Christian proclamation "outwards" - towards searching and questioning mankind - is seen in Saint Paul's address at the Areopagus. Zenit: Benedict XVI on the Roots of European Culture
- Lastly, Solon decreed that all those who had been condemned by the archons to _atimy_ (civil disfranchisement) should be restored to their full privileges of citizens -- excepting, however, from this indulgence those who had been condemned by the Ephetæ, or by the Areopagus, or by the Phylo-Basileis (the four kings of the tribes), after trial in the The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
- The title comes from the Areopagus, a Greek place of debate.
- Athens' tutelary goddess, Athena, refuses to grant Orestes sanctuary on her own authority; instead she creates the Areopagus Council as a citizen's court, and bids the Councillors to decide the justice of the matter.
