This tour aims to create an experience in the exact places where philosophy was born to provide the opportunity for tourists and travelers to experience in a popular way the main philosophical approaches to the road to happiness (EUDAIMONIA). You can have an acquaintance with 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 Exit) 1st route: Theater of Dionysos -Socrates Prison-Philopapou Hill-Pnyx -Observatory of Athens (Myth of the Cave, Platonic Philosophical Approach to Happiness - Socrates), Tour at the Monument of Philopappos, 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 )- Anafiotika
Inclusions & Exclusions
✔  speaker in order to hear the stories
Departure & Return
Departure:  ,

At the exit of the Acropolis metro station (Makrygianni street)

Return: End right where it started.
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Itinerary
1
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

Duration:  15 minutes

2
Herod Atticus Odeon The most well-known open-door theater in the world and the message of persona, animus and anima characteristics of the personality.

Duration:  10 minutes

3
Prison of Socrates The allegory of the cave ,Plato's philosophy

Duration:  20 minutes

4
Eglise D'agios Dimitrios Loumbardiaris The birth of democracy in this place

Duration:  20 minutes

5
Philopappos Monument The most highly energetic point in Athens, with the best view of the Parthenon and Acropolis . The recipe of Happiness according Plato and Socrates

Duration:  15 minutes

6
Pnyx The best view of Athens, the assembly area of Athenian citizens. Aristoteles's perspective of Eudaimonia (blissful) The secret place of Socrates.

Duration:  15 minutes

7
Keramikos Archaeological Site The ancient cemetery of Athens and the Epicurian recipe of Happiness (Epicurus's garden)

Duration:  15 minutes

8
Ancient Agora of Athens The place Stoicism was born. Philosophy was born, Theater was born, and Democracy was for the first time executed
9
Adrianou Street The most beautiful street in Athens
10
Roman Agora The place stoicism was taught as a philosophy of Life

Duration:  15 minutes

11
Tower of the Winds The first meteorological station in the world
12
The discussion point of the philosophers. You will experience the atmosphere of the Mnisikleous stair. Best place for lunch
13
Lysikratous Square The place Nitze conceive the Apollonian and Dionysian side of Athens

Duration:  15 minutes

14
Anafiotika The 2nd most energetic point in Athens feels to be on a Cycladic island

Duration:  10 minutes

Additional info
•  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
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Price:
From $73.49
Ticket:
Mobile or paper ticket accepted
duration:
2.5 hours
Guide in:
English   
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