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Pericles built the Parthenon (for inspiration) before he ever commissioned the Agora (for practicality).
Imagination is more important than Knowledge. - Einstein
& it was later within the Agora at the Council of 500 (the foundation for all civilized legal systems forthwith), after Pericles, after the Spartan sieges & a plague that claimed a quarter of Athens,
& opportunist career politicians had assumed the mantle of a privileged class, &
the people had grown all fat & spoiled & lazy-minded happily subjugated to the gentry in their sufficient diversions --
that a once great democracy succumbed to the lowest common denominator of thought & mob rule ruled all --
and Socrates was condemned to death.
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