1) Ancient Greek geography 2) Any high tribunal 3) Athenian tribunal 4) High tribunal 5) High tribunal, Greek style 6) Hill
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The AreopagusPronunciation-needed (Romanized to `Mars’ hill`) is the composite form of the Greek name Areios Pagos, translated `Ares Rock` (Ἄρειος Πάγος). It is north-west of the Acropolis in Athens. In classical times, it functioned as the high Court of Appeal for criminal and civil cases Ares was supposed to have been tried he...
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[poetry] The Areopagus is a speculated or hinted poetry movement centered on Edmund Spenser and Gabriel Harvey. The label is used as a critical shorthand for a group of poets that included Spenser, Harvey, Edward Dyer and Sir Philip Sidney. There is no direct evidence that the group was more than an idea found in letters between Spenser and...
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• (n.) The highest judicial court at Athens. Its sessions were held on Mars` Hill. Hence, any high court or tribunal
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(from the article `Athens`) On the Hill of Ares, the god of war, to the right of the descent from the Propylaea, a legendary jury of gods spared Ares from execution for the ... earliest aristocratic council of ancient Athens. The name was taken from the Areopagus (`Ares` Hill`), a low hill northwest of the Acropolis, which .....
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earliest aristocratic council of ancient Athens. The name was taken from the Areopagus (`Ares` Hill`), a low hill northwest of the Acropolis, which ... [5 related articles]
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(Greek, 'Hill of Ares.') (1) Also known as 'Mars Hill,' this location near the Acropolis served in c
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Ar`e·op'a·gus noun [ Latin , from Greek ..., 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
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Areopagus was the oldest of the Athenian courts of justice, an assembly having a position indeed more august than an ordinary court, and in its best days exercising a general supervision over public morals. It obtained its name from its place of meeting, on the Hill of Ares, near the Acropolis or citadel of Athens. It existed from very remote times...
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Areopagus 1. Name of a hill west of the Acropolis in Athens and of the tribunal situated on it. 2. The council of the hill of Ares.
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noun the highest governmental assembly in ancient Athens (later a judicial court)
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a hill in Athens, Greece, W of the Acropolis. · the council that met on this hill, originally having wide public functions but later becoming a purely judicial body. · any high tribunal.
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