Alone with my Blue Guide

I climbed the site of Athens’ ancient council, the Aereopagus. I climbed the hill where the Athenian assembly met – the Pnyx. The speaker’s stone is still there and I looked at the very spot where Themistokles, Aristides, Cimon, Thucydides and Perikles had stood to speak to the world’s first democracy. I could have stood on it too ... but it didn’t seem appropriate. I rambled around the agora and admired the Temple of Hephaestus. I was mostly alone with my Blue Guide. Lyn was fortunate not to spend an afternoon with me gazing meditatively at the rubble. It was freezing and then it began to drizzle. I remember returning to the Herodion chilled to the bone but warmed within.

Speakers stone at the Pnyx

Hephaestion temple in the Agora

View of the Acropolis from the Pnyx