Abstract:
Today’s weary pilgrim can take shade for as long as s/he wishes on the leafy Stoa of Zeus Eleutherios at the north-west corner of the sprawling ancient Agora (market place) at Athens. Its long-fallen columns were erected by the Athenians to celebrate the Greeks’ unlikely victory over the Persian Empire in 480 BCE. Soon afterwards, they echoed with the talk of the philosopher Socrates and his students. Socrates is known to have frequented this place. It was at this very spot that the world’s first free inquiry into the rational bases of moral and political life took place.
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