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Philosophical Tour in Athens

By WALK IN ATHENS
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Price is $170 per adult* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple adult tickets
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  • 2h 30m
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Overview

This tour aims to create an experience in the exact places where philosophy was born, providing tourists and travelers with a unique opportunity to explore the main philosophical approaches to the pursuit of happiness (eudaimonia). You can gain insight into the way of achieving the bliss proposed by exceptional thinkers who lived and taught in the city of Athens. This is the best tour for personal development while you wander along the ruins of Athens (BE YOUR BEST VERSION IN ATHENS)
Itinerary
Starting point METRO ACROPOLIS (Makrygianni and Dinysiou Areopagitou Exit)
1st route: Theater of Dionysos -Socrates Prison-Philopapou Hill-Pnyx -Observatory of Athens (Myth of the allegory of the Cave, Platonic and Aristotelian philosophical approach to Happiness - Socrates), best photos of PARTHENON
2nd route: Keramikos - Roman Market (Epicurean and Stoic approach to happiness)
3rd route Monument of Lysikrates (Dionysian and Apollonian approach to happiness )
Walk the city. Question life

Activity location

  • Theatre of Dionysus Eleuthereus
    • 25 Mitseon
    • 117 42, Athina, Greece

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Acropoli
    • 117 42, Athens, Greece

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Philosophical Tour in Athens

  • Activity duration is 2 hours and 30 minutes2h 30m
    2h 30m
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 11:00AM
Price details
$170.32 x 1 Adult$170.32
Total
Price is $170.32
Until Fri, Jun 26

What's included, what's not

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    speaker in order to hear the stories

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  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transportation options are available nearby
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Theatre of Dionysus Eleuthereus

  • 15m
We stand outside the Theater of Dionysus, the birthplace of tragedy. They will learn why there was an obligation to see a tragic play as a cure for easy judgment and how Carl Jung told us how tragedy can help us be our best selves. We will discuss the view of Budism and evolution psychology to the term of the shelf

Herod Atticus Odeon

  • 10m
The most well-known open-door theater in the world and the message of persona, animus and anima characteristics of the personality.

Prison of Socrates

  • 20m
The allegory of the cave ,Plato's philosophy

Eglise D'agios Dimitrios Loumbardiaris

  • 20m
The birth of democracy in this place

Philopappos Monument

  • 15m
The most highly energetic point in Athens, with the best view of the Parthenon and Acropolis . The recipe of Happiness according Plato and Socrates

Pnyx

  • 15m
  • Admission ticket included
The best view of Athens, the assembly area of Athenian citizens. Aristoteles's perspective of Eudaimonia (blissful) The secret place of Socrates.

Keramikos Archaeological Site

  • 15m
The ancient cemetery of Athens and the Epicurian recipe of Happiness (Epicurus's garden)

Ancient Agora of Athens (Pass by)

The place Stoicism was born. Philosophy was born, Theater was born, and Democracy was for the first time executed

Adrianou Street (Pass by)

The most beautiful street in Athens

Roman Agora

  • 15m
The place stoicism was taught as a philosophy of Life

Tower of the Winds (Pass by)

The first meteorological station in the world

Mnisikleous (Pass by)

The discussion point of the philosophers. You will experience the atmosphere of the Mnisikleous stair. Best place for lunch

Lysikratous Square

  • 15m
The place Nitze conceive the Apollonian and Dionysian side of Athens

Anafiotika

  • 10m
The 2nd most energetic point in Athens feels to be on a Cycladic island

Location

Activity location

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    Theatre of Dionysus Eleuthereus
    • 25 Mitseon
    • 117 42, Athina, Greece

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Acropoli
    • 117 42, Athens, Greece

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