• Photo taken at Pnyx by Panagiotis on 6/3/2023. Photo taken at Pnyx by Steven B. on 1/26/2020. See all 170 photos.
  • Today the Pnyx is covered with trees and is one of the few green spaces of the city and a favorite park for its residents.
  • There was a prison on one of the slopes of the Pnyx. It is famous for the fact that one of the most famous ancient Greek philosophers Socrates was imprisoned here.
  • The Pnyx is the ancient remains from what was once was the Athenian Assembly, the world's first democratic legislature.
  • Excavations were carried out in 1910 by the Greek Archaeological Society and definitely confirmed the identification of the site as the Pnyx.
  • More information about the Pnyx. It is believed that the Pnyx was founded in the 5th century BC and underwent three construction periods.
  • Τhere is a great number of fantastic places to chill near the Acropolis, but surprisingly, Pnyx (or Pnyka) is one of the less visited ones...
  • Welcome to Pnyx, our digital-only, double-blind peer-reviewed, Open Access journal for Classical Studies, Archaeology, and their Receptions.
  • For the Pnyx was the meeting place of the world's first democratic legislature, the Athenian ekklesia (assembly), and the flat stone is the bema or speaker's platform.
  • There was a stone platform, “stepping stone”, [bema] that speakers stood on. The Pnyx facilitated and made manifest the Athenian ideal of equal speech [isēgoría].