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Greece, Athens – Pnyx – Bema speaker’s platform (00:00:50)

$40.00

The Pnyx is a small, rocky hill surrounded by parkland, with a large flat platform of eroded stone set into its side, and by steps carved on its slope. It was the meeting place of one of the world’s earliest known democratic legislatures, the Athenian ekklesia (assembly), and the flat stone platform was the bema, the “stepping stone” or speakers’ platform. This was the oratorical platform from which noted politicians such as Pericles and orators “fulmined over Greece.”