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The person who wrote the text below is illeterate, to say the least and stay polite. The expression "basileios stoa" is nonsence in Greek. There has neven been a "basilike stoa" in Athens or any other place in Greece, at least not in the last 4,000 years of recorded Greek history. The word "archon" is not the name of a king but a title; archon means something like leader (Fuehrer in German, the title given to Adolf Hitler). archon derives from "arche" which means begin, origin, beginning, leadership. Archon (today people say minister) was the title of any of the 10 members of the Athenian government, elected yearly. Themis does not represent Justice. Themis is the name of the Goddess responsible for what is called in English justice. The Romans took over the Greek religion and therefore Themis. They gave, of course, Latin name to the Gods and Goddesses. For Themis thet chose the name Justitia from which justice derives.

You see, it is not enough to know how to press the buttons on the thing idiotically called "mouse" to be a Historian. Unless one is not interested in History but only in cheap propaganda and distortion of facts.

Basileios Stoa (also Basiliké Stoà or Royal Stoa) was a stoa

Stoa

Stoa in Architecture of Ancient Greece; covered walkways or porticos, commonly for public usage. Early stoae were open at the entrance with columns lining the side of the building, creating an enveloping, protective atmosphere and were usually of Doric order....
constructed in the 5th century BC. It was located in the northwest corner (known as "the Herms" because of the great number of Herms set up there) of the Athenian Agora

Ancient Agora of Athens

The Ancient Agora of Athens is the best-known example of agora, located in Ancient Athens, Greece....
. The Royal Stoa was the headquarters of King Archon

Archon

Archon is a Greek language word that means "ruler", frequently used as the title of a specific public office. It is the masculine present participle of the verb stem ???-, meaning "to rule", derived from the same root as monarch, hierarchy and anarchism....
and of the Areios Pagos council (in charge of religious affairs and crime). A statue of Themis

Themis

Themis is an Greek mythology. She is described as "of good counsel", and was the embodiment of divine order, law, and custom. Themis means "law of nature" rather than human ordinance, literally "that which is put in place", from the verb t?????, t?themi, to put....
(representing Justice) stands in front of the building. Copies of the city laws were kept in this Stoa. The front of the building was where Socrates

Socrates

Socrates was a Classical Greece Philosophy. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known only through the classical accounts of his students....
met Euthyphro

Euthyphro

Euthyphro is one of Plato's early dialogues, dated to after 399 BCE. It features Ancient Greece philosopher Socrates and Euthyphro, a man known for claiming to be a religious expert....
and had the conversation, which Plato

Plato

Plato , was a Classical Greece Greeks philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Platonic Academy in Ancient Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world....
recreated in his Euthyphro. It was also where Socrates was formally charged with impiety

Impiety

Impiety is a lack of proper concern for the obligations owed to Cult ; that is, to the outward practices of a belief system. Impiety was a main Pagan objection to Christianity, for unlike other initiates into mystery religions, early Christians refused to cast a pinch of incense before the images of the gods, among whom were the protective de...
by Meletus

Meletus

The Apology by Plato names Meletus as the chief accuser of Socrates. He is also mentioned in the Euthyphro. Given his awkwardness as an orator, and his likely age at the time of Socrates's death, many hold that he was not the real leader of the movement against the early philosopher, but rather was simply the spokesman for a group led b...
. It has been thought that the votes for the political practice of ostracism

Ostracism

Ostracism was a procedure under the Athenian democracy in which a prominent citizen could be exile from the city-state of Athens for ten years....
that took place in Athens during the 5th century BC may have taken place in front of the Royal Stoa.