AGORA
Early in
Greek history (18th century–8th century BC), free-born male land-owners who
were citizens would gather in the agora for military duty or to hear statements
of the ruling king or council. Later, the agora also served as a marketplace
where merchants
ARETE
Arete ,
in its basic sense, means "excellence of any kind".The
term may also mean "moral virtue".In
its earliest appearance in Greek, this notion of
excellence was ultimately bound up with the notion of the fulfillment of
purpose or function: the act of living up to one's full potential.
POILS
It can also
mean citizenship and
body of citizens. In modern historiography, polis is normally used to
indicate the ancient Greek
city-states, like Classical Athens and
its contemporaries, and thus is often translated as "city-state".
.SOCRATES
He is an
enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers,
especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon and the plays of
his contemporary Aristophanes.
THE DEATH OF
SOCRATES
is a 1787 oil
on canvas painting by the French painter Jacques-Louis David.
Like many of his works from that decade, the painting focuses on a classical
subject, in this case the story of the execution of Socrates, as told by Plato in his Phaedo.
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