Tour locations on this map include Thebes (Thiva), Thermopylae, Volos, Leptokarya, Meteora, Kavala & Krinides & Philippi, Thessaloniki, Berea (Veria) Corfu Island, Corinth and Athens.
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60. ATHENS | The Marble Stadium | Theodosius | The Pilgrim Church | Dromeas | The Runner
The upper section of the Marble Stadium of Athens, added in the second century AD, is part of the stadium that housed the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 and serves as the endpoint of the classical marathon every year. The stadium’s lower-level dates back to the fourth century BC. […]
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59. ATHENS | Lykavittos Hill
See Lykavittos Hill in the distance, (Λυκαβηττός λόφος) the highest peak in Athens. In antiquity, it was located outside the city walls. Today, its summit is occupied by a chapel dedicated to St. George.
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58. ATHENS | Temple of Zeus, The Olympieion | Athens in 2 AD
At the Temple of Zeus, also known as the Olympieion, in the Corinthian style, today we have only sixteen columns remaining out of the original one hundred and four. The surviving columns of the Temple of Zeus are located in the center of Athens, Greece. The temple originally had 104 […]
Read More57. ATHENS | Instructions to the Church | Equality of the Members | The Experience of the Life of the Church
Paul wrote to the church and gave them instructions on their need to provide the good life to everyone in the church. The Apostle Paul wanted the church members to be equal. This included “culturally proper ladies” and those who had left a life of prostitution and traded it for […]
Read More56. ATHENS | Classical Theater | Prometheus | Substitutionary Atonement
Another famous playwright is Aeschylus. Have you heard about the Titan Prometheus? Aeschylus wrote a trilogy about Prometheus: ‘Prometheus Fire-Holder,’ ‘Prometheus Bound,’ and ‘Prometheus Liberated.’ The first part of the trilogy shows how Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to humans, making himself good to the humans, […]
Read More55. ATHENS | Classical Theater | Oedipus
“Have you heard anything about classical theater? Do you have a favorite author or a favorite play from that time? Have you heard about Oedipus? Do you have a favorite topic you’d like us to discuss? Or we can continue talking about Oedipus. I would like to start with the […]
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54. ATHENS | Theater of Dionysus | Philippians 1:30 | Colossians 2:1 | 1 Timothy 6:12
The ruins of the Temple of Dionysus, possibly built at the beginning of the 6th century BC, and just where we are now, you would find the orchestra of the theater, which was a threshing floor during the festivals of Dionysus. It wasn’t used by the farmers of Athens to […]
Read More53. ATHENS | Asklepieion | The Hospital of Athens | Ancient Roads
Facing south we have the Asklepieion, (Ἀσκληπιεῖον) the hospital of Athens, on the southern slope of the Acropolis. Do you know something about the ancient hospitals? More than 300 hospitals/temples dedicated to Asclepius have been discovered, the biggest one being in Pergamum. The Pergamian Asclepieion is like a town. The […]
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52. ATHENS | Erectheion on the Acropolis of Athens
At the Erectheion on the Acropolis of Athens, one part of this ancient temple was dedicated to Poseidon, the god of the sea. Another part, the part that faced the city was dedicated to Athena, the goddess of the city court/wisdom. Athenians believed there was a contest between Poseidon and […]
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51. ATHENS | Rock of the Ecclesia | Temple of Nike | The Parthenon
At the rock of the Ecclesia, you can see the three steps of the Bema. Look for a little cliff, and the steps carved on the side of the cliff. Now, on this side, here we have the gates. Right in the middle are the five doors on the marble […]
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50. ATHENS | Introduction to the Acropolis of Athens | The Odeion | The Philopappos Monument
I would like to continue the Introduction to the Acropolis. I would like to speak a little bit about an attack that was organized against the city-state of Athens by a superpower at the very time when democracy was born here. When this little miracle called democracy started in Athens, […]
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49. ATHENS | Mars Hill | Mark 10:17-18 | Matthew 19:16-17 | Luke 18:18-19 | Acts 17: 15-34
Mars Hill in Athens, Greece, became important for Athenian society after the monarchy was abolished. For the first time, the system called oligarchy was established, and power passed into the hands of the Royal Council. It was necessary for the Royal Council to go up Mars Hill to have its […]
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48. ATHENS | Mars Hill | The Bema | The Stoa | The Sermon of the Apostle Paul | Acts 17:22-31
Mars Hill was important to the public life of Athens after the monarchy was abolished. Mars Hill overlooks the square of the Athenian Agora. Remember the Bema, of course (and the Bema in Philippi, Greece that you have already seen.) Read the sign there and look at this rectangular and […]
Read More 47. ATHENS | The Concept of the Body | Harmonious Cooperation of All the Members of the Body | The Meaning of Democracy
I would like to remind you that God never left Himself unrevealed to the nations and to the Gentiles. The Apostle Paul, several times, repeats that idea. Remember, in the letter to Romans, Paul asks the question, “Is God only the God of Israel or the God of the nations? […]
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46. ATHENS | Where Athenian Democracy was Born
The first agora in Western civilization appeared in Athens, at the end of the sixth century BC. This is where Athenian democracy was born, which opened a new era in world culture. At the Agora in Athens we have the ruins of the administrative and the religious sections of the […]
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