Paul visited Athens, the most prominent city in ancient times on his second missionary tour after Thessalonica and Beroea. Athens was a beautiful city distinguished primarily as the center of Greek learning, literature and art. When Paul visited Athens, the home of famous philosophers as Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, it was a university city filled with lecturers and philosophers as four schools of philosophy were established there and these were attended by students from throughout the Roman empire. Athens was also a very religious city full of beautiful public buildings and temples like the Parthenon.

Paul argued in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the market place every day with those who chanced to be there... and they took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus mentions the book of Acts.

During your visit of Athens walk in the Agora,the market place, the heart of Ancient Athens where the Athenians loved moving around continually inquiring, What news? and where they went to do their business, meet their friends and participate in the political and religious life of the city.

Walk among the ruins of public buildings, stoas, temples, and imagine what life was like in Paul's day and the time of the Stoic and the Epicurean philosophers. Visit the Agora museum housed in the fine reconstructed stoa of Attalus with exhibits that reveal the sophistication of ancient life in Athens.