The ancient Agora of Athens (also called the Classical Agora) is the best-known example of an ancient Greek agora, located to the northwest of the Acropolis...
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"I speak in public". The Ancient Agora of Athens was situated beneath the northern slope of the Acropolis. The Ancient Agora was the primary meeting ground...
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The Stoa of Attalos (also spelled Attalus) was a stoa (covered walkway or portico) in the Agora of Athens, Greece. It was built by and named after King...
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The city of Athens (Ancient Greek: Ἀθῆναι, Athênai [a.tʰɛ̂ː.nai̯]; Modern Greek: Αθήναι, Athine [a.ˈθi.ne̞] or, more commonly and in singular, Αθήνα, Athina...
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Stoa Poikile (category Ancient Agora of Athens)
around 460 BC on the north side of the Ancient Agora of Athens. It was one of the most famous sites in ancient Athens, owing its fame to the paintings...
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The Synagogue in the Agora of Athens is an ancient former Jewish synagogue, that was located in the Ancient Agora of Athens, in modern-day Greece. During...
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The Roman Agora (Greek: Ρωμαϊκή Αγορά) at Athens is located to the north of the Acropolis and to the east of the Ancient Agora. The Roman Agora was built...
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East Building was a rectangular structure at the south end of the Agora in ancient Athens. It was built in the mid-second century BC as the east side...
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Thiseio (redirect from Thiseion, Athens)
neighbourhood in the old city of Athens, Greece, northwest of the Acropolis, and surrounded by the archaeological sites of the Agora, Keramikos and Pnyx. The...
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up agora in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Agora is a general name for a public meeting place in ancient Greece. Agora may also refer to: Agora (film)...
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Stoa Basileios (redirect from Royal Stoa (Athens))
Stoa Basileios (Ancient Greek: στοὰ βασίλειος), meaning Royal Stoa, was a Doric stoa in the northwestern corner of the Athenian Agora, which was built...
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Church of the Holy Apostles, also known as Holy Apostles of Solaki (Greek: Άγιοι Απόστολοι Σολάκη), is located in the Ancient Agora of Athens, Greece...
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The Odeon of Agrippa was a large odeon located in the centre of the ancient Agora of Athens. It was built about 15 BC, occupying what had previously been...
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South Stoa II was a stoa on the south side of the Agora in ancient Athens. It formed the south side of an enclosed complex called the South Square, which...
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conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in the Agora, to the south of the railway, the southwest corner of an enclosure was discovered...
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ingenuity. Pottery in ancient Greece was most often the work of slaves. Many of the potters of Athens assembled between the agora and the Dipylon, in the...
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for perhaps 5,000 years. Situated in southern Europe, Athens became the leading city of ancient Greece in the first millennium BC, and its cultural achievements...
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Third place (category Quality of life)
Oldenburg. Locales of this type have been identified throughout human history. Ancient Greeks and their agora, or public squares, are among some of the first well-documented...
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The Temple of Ares was a Doric hexastyle peripteral temple dedicated to Ares, located in the northern part of the Ancient Agora of Athens. Fragments from...
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of Aphrodite Urania (Ancient Greek: ἱερὸν Ἀφροδίτης Οὐρανίας, romanized: hieron Aphroditēs Ouranias) was located north-west of the Ancient Agora of Athens...
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Southwest Temple (category Ancient Agora of Athens)
southwest part of the Ancient Agora of Athens. Fragments from the temple found throughout the Agora enable a full, if tentative, reconstruction of the temple's...
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Stoicism (redirect from Ethics of Stoicism)
founded in the ancient Agora of Athens by Zeno of Citium around 300 BCE. Alongside Aristotle's ethics, the Stoic tradition forms one of the major founding...
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The South Stoa I of Athens was a two-aisled stoa located on the south side of the Agora, in Athens, Greece, between the Aiakeion and the Southeast Fountain...
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Strategeion (category Ancient Agora of Athens)
in the Ancient Agora of Athens, Greece, is known as the meeting room of the ten Strategoi of ancient Athens. Having been built atop two ancient graves...
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The law courts of ancient Athens (4th and 6th centuries BC) were a fundamental organ of democratic governance. According to Aristotle, whoever controls...
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The Temple of Apollo Patroos (meaning "of the fathers") is a small ruined temple on the west side of the Ancient Agora of Athens. The original temple...
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The Acropolis of Athens (Ancient Greek: ἡ Ἀκρόπολις τῶν Ἀθηνῶν, romanized: hē Akropolis tōn Athēnōn; Modern Greek: Ακρόπολη Αθηνών, romanized: Akrópoli...
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New Bouleuterion (category Ancient Agora of Athens)
Bouleuterion is an ancient building in the city of Athens in Attica, Greece. It was located on the western side of the Ancient Athenian Agora. It is a theater...
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Monastiraki metro station (category Athens Metro stations)
station is right beneath the Acropolis and next to the site of the Ancient Agora of Athens. Monastiraki opened as Monastirion (Greek: Μοναστήριον, lit...
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visitors with views of the Parthenon and the Agora (the meeting point of ancient Athenians), away from the busy City Centre. The hills of Athens also provide...
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