Word: areopagus
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Athens he soon saw that there was something better to live for than boxing. So he put himself under the instruction of Zeno, a Stoic philosopher. But since he was a poor man he was obliged to work nearly all night to support himself. He was summoned before the Areopagus because he had no visible means of support, but when the council learned the true state of affairs, they commended him and made him a present, which Zeno forbade him to accept. Cleanthes was different from most of the philosophers of that time, in that he did not care...
...Christian Association last night, Professor W. W. Goodwin attracted an unusually large audience. He took his subject from the seventeenth chapter of Acts and after reading a freer translation of this than is found in the Bible, spoke very interestingly of St. Paul's discourse in the Areopagus at Athens...
...connection with this, Prof. Goodwin gave a description of the most important temples and statues of the Gods in Athens, for it was one of Paul's chief complaints that this beautiful city was wholly given up to idolatry. The Areopagus, or Man's Hill, where Paul delivered his address to the Athenians, was one of the most sacred places of the city. Here the senate had sat and done unswerving justice, yet it shared in Paul's condemnation. He little thought how soon his own words would become a part of the religious services held in that same areopagus...
...planted by Athena herself. Throughout the city itself were the temples, altars and idols without number. Yet all this magnificence had no effect on Paul save to stir his spirit, while the obscure, modest altar "to an unknown god" gave him the text to his famous sermon on the Areopagus. It is interesting to note that in this sermon Paul quotes, in the words "For we are also His offspring," from the writings of Eudoxus, the originator of the Epicurean philosophy...
...work of Aristotle confirms the facts found elsewhere, namely that Solon put an end to the oligarchy; that his Seisach put an end to public and private debt, and did away with the imprisonment of debtors; and that he extended the use of lots, and that he established the Areopagus...