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n. - The highest governmental assembly in ancient Athens (later a judicial court); A hill to the west of the Athenian acropolis where met the highest governmental council of ancient Athens and later a judicial court.

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  • Not far from the Areopagus is the Pnyx, where the free people of
  • The Areopagus was a rocky height in Athens, opposite the western end of the
  • Ares was acquitted, and this event is supposed to have given rise to the name Areopagus (or Hill of
  • Of all Paul's addresses reported in Acts, this address in the Areopagus is his longest to a pagan audience (cf. 14: 15ff).
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