The Keraimeikos was the pottery market in ancient Athens.It was one of the focal points in the city's bustling life and Socrates, Pericles and others all could be found there from time to time. 

I chose this name because it illluminates the nature of Athens and ancient civilization in general - industrious and festive, public and private, contemplative and earthly in a way ours cannot even imagine. 

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A Republic cannot exist without morals, and morals  cannot be sustained long without philosophy and philosophy, in turn, requires thinking. Socrates talked to the rich and the poor alike, to the Eupatridic aristocrats and to the poor artisans. He found that contrary to what both believed neither part of the people was possessing amonopoly on understanding the Good and the Beautiful.

He found insufferable ignoramuses and brilliant thinkers on both sides, and strove to guide them both along the path of reason, towards morality and piety.

 

I have no pretensions to great wisdom or learning. But while you are here, step into my shop, the humble shop of the Amphora-Maker. Let us sit down while I paint and sit at my stones and have a conversation worthy for friends and free men.