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DAVID YATES

Millsaps College

The Areopagus is a rocky outcropping located west of the Athenian ACROPOLIS. Herodotus mentions the hill once as the place from which the Persians began their assault on the Acropolis in 480 BCE (8.52.1). The AMAZONS were later thought to have anticipated the Persians by using this same hill as a base for their earlier attack on the Acropolis (Aesch. Eum. 685–90). Herodotus makes no mention of the Areopagus council, even though ARISTOTLE later believed that its patriotic actions during the evacuation of Attica did much to ensure victory ([Arist.] Ath. pol. 23.1).

SEE ALSO: Athens; Salamis (island and battle)