Areopagus : hill NW of Acropolis of Athens, meeting place of the earliest aristocratic council of the city. The name was later extended to denote the council itself.
... [Ezekiel] 34. 17.. 31 Lipi. 1) Judge (in vijnana) 2) Startling effectivities. 3) Sleeping lioness (Durga-Kali). R. [Reference] 1) And they took him and brought him unto Areopagus, saying "May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is. For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears; we would know therefore what these things mean.["] 2) Ezra V. 1-2 ...
... Socrates Appendix II Trial of Socrates In Athens, the jury system was introduced simultaneously with Athenian democracy in 590 BC. A council called Areopagus consisting of elected aristocrats, ran both the government as well as the court. Pericles and his predecessor Aphialtes, had accomplished one of the greatest reforms in the judicial system that ...
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