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The Athenian agora today. The Ancient Agora of Athens was situated beneath the northern slope of the Acropolis. The Ancient Agora was the primary meeting ground for Athenians, where members of democracy congregated affairs of the state, where business was conducted, a place to hang out, and watch performers and listen to famous philosophers ...
View of the ancient agora. The temple of Hephaestus is to the left and the Stoa of Attalos to the right.. 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 and bounded on the south by the hill of the Areopagus and on the west by the hill known as the Agoraios Kolonos, also called Market ...
Museum of Ancient Agora of Athens. Brief History and Tour. Athens: Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Thompson, Homer A. (1992). The Stoa of Attalos II in Athens. Athens/Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens. ISBN 978-0-87661-634-5. Townsend, Rhys F. (1995). Agora XXVII: The East Side of the Agora: The Remains beneath the Stoa of ...
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 37 (1): 43– 56. ISSN 0018-098X. JSTOR 147537. Travlos, John (1971). Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Athens. Thames and Hudson. Thompson, Homer A.; Wycherley, R. E. (1972). "The Agora of Athens: The History, Shape and Uses of an Ancient City Center". The Athenian Agora.
There were ten gates in the Agora, the main building, each gate for a different tribe. The people would come and write a name on an ostracism. If over six thousand ostracism had the same name on them the person would have to leave Athens within ten days. There have been archeology findings that have uncovered many of the shards of ostracism. [17]
A stoa (/ ˈ s t oʊ ə /; plural, stoas, [1] stoai, [1] or stoae / ˈ s t oʊ. iː / [2]), in ancient Greek architecture, is a covered walkway or portico, commonly for public use. [3] Early stoas were open at the entrance with columns, usually of the Doric order , lining the side of the building; they created a safe, enveloping, protective ...
A kleroterion in the Ancient Agora Museum (Athens) A large kleroterion at the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology in Reading, Berkshire A kleroterion (Ancient Greek: κληρωτήριον, romanized: klērōtērion) was a randomization device used by the Athenian polis during the period of democracy to select citizens to the boule, to most state offices, to the nomothetai, and to court juries.
Plan of the Ancient Agora of Athens in the Roman Imperial period (ca. 150 AD). The Stoa Poikile (Ancient Greek: ἡ ποικίλη στοά, hē poikílē stoá) or Painted Portico was a Doric stoa (a covered walkway or portico) erected around 460 BC on the north side of the Ancient Agora of Athens.