Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Almost a year ago I was travelling in Greece where one morning – in what can be by now considered an obligatory step for a Western tourist – I stood on the Agora in Athens to witness what we regard as the ancient roots of modern democracy. The day before I had explored the religious side of Athens – i.e. the Parthenon temple on the Acropolis and the hill where St. Paul preached to the citizens of the then already Roman empire. That morning I first had visited the pnyx – where on the bema, the speaker’s stone, Perikles and Demosthenes had held their famous speeches to the assembly of the citizens. Demosthenes, who led an usuccessful uprising of the Atheniens against the Macedonian king Alexander the Great can be classified clearly as a defender of the vanishing democratic institutions.
Almost a year ago I was travelling in Greece where one morning – in what can be by now considered an obligatory step for a Western tourist – I stood on the Agora in Athens to witness what we regard as the ancient roots of modern democracy. The day before I had explored the religious side of Athens – i.e. the Parthenon temple on the Acropolis and the hill where St. Paul preached to the citizens of the then already Roman empire. That morning I first had visited the pnyx – where on the bema, the speaker’s stone, Perikles and Demosthenes had held their famous speeches to the assembly of the citizens. Demosthenes, who led an usuccessful uprising of the Atheniens against the Macedonian king Alexander the Great can be classified clearly as a defender of the vanishing democratic institutions.
Introductory note
Peter Schaefer (Autor:in)
2008
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
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