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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 ...
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 ...
[2] [3] To the east of the East Building was the Panathenaic Way, the main thoroughfare leading from the Agora up to the Athenian Acropolis. Around 110 AD, the Library of Pantaenus and the Southeast Stoa were built on the opposite side of the road.
The building was reconstructed from 1952 to 1956 by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and currently houses the Museum of the Ancient Agora. The museum's exhibits are mostly connected with the Athenian democracy. The collection of the museum includes clay, bronze and glass objects, sculptures, coins and inscriptions from the 7th ...
Plan of the Athenian Agora in the fifth century BC; the Royal Stoa is no. 17. Stoa Basileios (Ancient Greek: στοὰ βασίλειος), meaning Royal Stoa, [1] was a Doric stoa in the northwestern corner of the Athenian Agora, which was built in the 6th century BC, substantially altered in the 5th century BC, and then carefully preserved until the mid-second century AD.
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 House. It probably served as the headquarters and dining rooms for various boards of Athenian officials.
The Hipparcheion, the headquarters for Athens' cavalry also seems to have been located in the general area. [16] The location would also have been convenient for supplying Athenian troops, when they marshalled in the Agora. [17] The water from the cisterns may have been used to clean the weapons and armour stored in the arsenal. [11]
Plan of the Ancient Agora of Athens, with the Square Peristyle (22). The Square Peristyle is the modern name for a structure on the east side of the Ancient Agora of Athens, which was among the largest peristyles built in Classical Greece. Construction began around 300 BC, but was abandoned ca. 285-275 BC, leaving the structure unfinished.