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The Roman Agora has not today been fully excavated, but is known to have been an open space surrounded by a peristyle. To its south was a fountain. To its south was a fountain. To its west, behind a marble colonnade, were shops and an Ionic propylaeum (entrance), the Gate of Athena Archegetis .
The Gate of Athena Archegetis is situated west side of the Roman Agora, in Athens and considered to be the second most prominent remain in the site after the Tower of the Winds. Constructed in 11 BCE by donations from Julius Caesar and Augustus , the gate was made of an architrave standing on four Doric columns and a base, all of Pentelic marble .
The Agora of Smyrna, alternatively known as the Agora of İzmir (Turkish: İzmir Agorası), is an ancient Roman agora located in Smyrna (present-day İzmir, Turkey). Originally built by the Greeks in the 4th century BC, the agora was ruined by an earthquake in 178 AD. [1] Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius ordered its reconstruction. [2]
The East Propylon is the eastern entrance of the Roman Agora in Athens. Built in 19-11 BCE, it consisted of Ionic columns made of gray Hymettian marble. [1] References
The agora (/ ˈ æ ɡ ə r ə /; Ancient Greek: ἀγορά, romanized: agorá, meaning "market" in Modern Greek) was a central public space in ancient Greek city-states. It is the best representation of a city-state's response to accommodate the social and political order of the polis. [ 1 ]
[29] [30] In the Athenian Agora, this style of foundation is typical of the early first century AD and the ground level assumed by the foundations matches that of the early Roman period. [31] At the east end of the temple, was a large staircase, 1.30 metres long by 4.7 metres wide, leading up to the front entrance.
From at least the 5th century BC, the Altar became the zero point from which distances to Athens were calculated. [11] A milestone, c. 400 BC, found near the gate to the Acropolis reads: "The city set me up, a truthful monument to show all mortals the measure of their journeying: the distance to the altar of the twelve gods from the harbor is forty-five stades". [12]
The 1962 edition of the Agora site guide proposed that the South Square had been used as court buildings. In 1972, Thompson and Richard Wycherley adopted this position and argued for it in detail. On this interpretation, the East Building was the area where the jurors entered the complex.