• 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.
  • As such, the Pnyx is the material embodiment of the principle of isēgoria, “equal speech”, i.e. the equal right of every citizen to debate matters of policy.
  • Pnyx is an open source project that brings all of your favorite unix tools like grep, sed and awk to your preferred programming language.
  • The entire territory of the Pnyx Hill is designated a municipal park and its slopes are forested with pines, cypresses, and other endemic vegetation.
  • The Pnyx is located less than 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) west of the Acropolis and 1.6 km south-west of the centre of Athens, Syntagma Square.
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  • It is the hill of the Pnyx or simply Pnyx. In its large and comfortable terrace, the Assembly of the citizens of the Athenian democracy was holding its regular meetings.
  • Pnyx: Fact box. Democracy, the idea that the people should rule the country rather than a supreme leader like a king, was invented in Ancient Greece.
  • 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].
  • 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.