Archivo: AgoraAthens5thcentury

Descripción: Plan of the ancient agora of Athens c. 5th century BC. Key 01 Square Peristyle, probably used as a courthouse & surrounded by vendors. Built early 4th c. BC, demolished c. 150 BC. 02 Mint, used for Athens's bronze coinage. Built c. 400 BC, destroyed c. 1st century. 03 SE Fountainhouse, misidentified by Pausenias as the Nine-Spouted Fountain (Enneakrounos). Built c. 525 BC. 04 South Stoa I. Built c. 425 BC, dismantled mid-2nd c. BC. 05 Aiakeion, dedicated to the Aeginan hero Aiakos, used as a granary & for the display of legal decisions. Formerly misidentified as the Heliaia. Built early 5th c. BC by order of the Pythia of Delphi. 06 Strategeion, dedicated to the hero Strategos, used as the meeting house of Athens's 10 generals (strategoi). Built mid-5th c. BC. 07 Stone benches of Agora Hill (Kolonos Agoraios). Built late 5th c. BC. 08 Tholos. Also known as the Skias from its supposed resemblance to a straw hat. Also known as the Prytanikon or Prytaneion as the home of the Prytany. Built c. 470 BC. 09 Boundary stone, marking one entrance to the agora. Erected c. 500 BC. 10 Monument of the Eponymous Heroes, the namesakes of the Athenian democracy's 10 tribes, chosen by the Pythia of Delphi. Present structure built late 4th c. BC. 11 Metroon, the Old Bouleuterion, dedicated to Cybele in propitiation after the Plague of Pericles was attributed to the murder of one of her missionary priests. Present structure built mid-2nd c. BC. 12 New Bouleuterion. Built late 5th c. BC. 13 Hephaistion or Theseion, the temple of Hephaestus & Athena the Worker (Athena Ergane), decorated with events in the lives of Hercules & Theseus. Built late 5th c. BC. 14 Temple of Fatherly Apollo (Apollo Patroos), honoring his siring of Ion, eponymous forefather of the Ionian Greeks. Built late 4th c. BC. 15 Stoa of Free Zeus (Zeus Eleutherios), honoring his help in defeating the Persians at Plataia & decorated with the shields of Athenians fallen in battle. Built late 5th c. BC. 16 Altar of the Twelve Gods, sanctuary. Built early 6th c. BC, dedicated 521 BC. 17 Royal Stoa (Stoa Basileios), seat of the royal archon (archon basileus), public copies of the city's laws, & the oath stone used to swear in new officials. Built c. 500 BC. 18 Temple of Heavenly Aphrodite (Aphrodite Urania). Built late 6th c. BC. 19 The Painted Stoa (Stoa Poikile), depicting Athenian victories in paintings & captured arms. Built early 5th c. BC. 20 A former mistaken location of the Painted Stoa used when 19 was mistakenly assumed to be the Stoa of the Herms.
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