To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know? Sócrates. The Agora (Αγορά) of Athens today is an archaeological site located beneath the northwest slope of the Acropolis. The word agora applies to an assembly of people and by extend marks the gathering place. In modern Greek the term means marketplace. Just about every ancient and modern city includes a place for an agora, and the Agora of Athens, being located at the heart of the city, remained in use either as an assembly, as a commercial, or as a residential area for about 5000 years. Athenian Agora - The State Prison. If this building was indeed the State Prison, it would be the place where the famous philosopher Socrates was locked up and executed in 399 BC. Agora State Prison.
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