was closely linked with religious pluralism; and Athens was no different.70 Did the herald’s defence of the existence and nature of this divinity meet the expectations of the Areopagus Council? Those who came as the assessors suddenly found that they were being confronted with having to face the fact that there will be a divine assessment of their lives. It was a speech that so engaged the minds of the hearers that ‘some mocked’, because of the foundational dictum of the Areopagite Council that when