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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 3, s. 269, p. 259

Thesmophorion. Vegetables. Thesmothesion. Victors. Thesmothetai. View from the Poplar. Vulcan. Thesmotheteion. Thirteenth God (Eleos). Wall. Thirty tyrants. Walls, Long. Waterworks. Tholia. Weights. Tholos ... Agora 3 259 ... Xenophon, historian ... Xenophon, sculptor

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: Sokrates

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Sokrates The philosopher Sokrates was one of many Athenians critical of the people and their control over affairs of state. His probing public debates with fellow citizens led to his trial for impiety ... Sokrates, therefore, met them in a shop near the Agora, according to Xenophon (Memorabilia 4.21), and Diogenes Laertios preserves the name of Simon as the owner of the establishment where these meetings took place: "Simon, an Athenian, a shoemaker. ... After executing him, the Athenians felt such remorse that eventually they commissioned a bronze statue of Sokrates, the work of the renowned sculptor Lysippos, which they set up in the Pompeion in Athens (Diogenes Laertios 2.43).