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...BASILEUS QUARTET Directed and Written by Fabio Carpi...
...must present myself at the Stoa of the Basileus to meet the indictment of Meletos, which he has brought against me. -Theaetetus, Plato
...locale of Socrates' trial in new excavations just north of the ancient Athenian marketplace and civic center. Professor T. Leslie Shear Jr. of Princeton University and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens identified the area as the site of the Stoa (or portico) of the Basileus. As the No. 2 man in the nine-man elected Athenian hierarchy, the basileus often acted as the city's chief magistrate. It was in this capacity that he presided over the Athenian judges who ordered Socrates to take his own life by drinking a cup of hemlock...
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