Ancient Agora of Athens

Well, yeah, it's I mean, and the idea, you know, direct democracy is not what our founders envisioned for our country.

But even calling this this perverse IP system direct democracy is, you know, it envisions, you know, Socrates wandering around the Athenian Agora or something.

No, these are.

Very aggressive, paid by the signature out-of-state petition gatherers who shove clipboards in our face in front of the Walmart.

Why these wells specifically? Now the chronology of the curse tablets from these two wells are also fascinating because in the larger picture, of curse tablets and ancient cursing from ancient Greece and ancient Rome, these tablets from this ancient burial ground are coming 500 years earlier than the ones that have been uncovered in Bath and the ones that have been uncovered in Rome.

And these well tablets in both of the wells, they're also being found and dated earlier than any curses being uncovered in the Athenian Agora.

So once again, why are the ancient individuals called to deposit curses in these wells and these graves? Why this site? now we have a mystery on our hands.

And considering that is a thought that just came into my mind, as I am getting ready with you all, I don't believe we have an answer.

It's pretty amazing and definitely go more this time of year than the heat of the summer, which is both super hot and apparently very crowded and more expensive.

But one of the things that was really interesting before the conference, I'll mention a couple of things quickly about the conference in a second, is To the point you were making was I did get to go check out some tourist sites, including the Ancient Agora, which in one way of looking at it is one of the birthplaces of kind of organized retail and retail as a community gathering place.

So it was very interesting.

I knew a little bit about that from school and other things, but to see it firsthand, you know, I could use a little refurbishing, a little bit of an upgrade.

Because again, you need less space when they're little scrolls.

He's at this bookstand in the Athenian Agora, bookseller cart maybe.

And the bookseller is reading.

I don't know if it's sideways or this way.