Who do tourists in Athens get reminded of at Mars Hill today?
At Mars Hill in Athens today, tourists are constantly reminded of the Apostle Paul, the one called a babbler, rather than the Greek philosophers. A large bronze plaque is dedicated to Paul, not Aristotle, Plato, or Homer. That is the striking observation about Mars Hill.
Les explains that when he was at Athens with Merlin, Titibal, and Nyrus and went up to Mars Hill, the first thing that struck him was that there was no big bronze plaque saying, 'This is what Aristotle said,' 'This is what Plato wrote,' or 'This is the place where Homer held forth.' Instead, the big bronze plaque is dedicated to the Apostle Paul, the babbler. Les points out that Paul is still held in high esteem, and tourists coming to Athens are constantly reminded of this man rather than the philosophers of the Greeks.