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http://agathe.gr/guide/library_of_pantainos.html Library of Pantainos Lying partially under and behind the Late Roman wall are the remains of a building identified by its inscribed marble lintel block as the Library of Pantainos, dedicated to Athena ... The northern stoa runs eastward, along the south side of a marble street that led in Roman times from the Agora to the Doric gateway of the market of Caesar and Augustus, also known as the Roman Agora. ... (Fig. 46), and the western stoa of the library was incorporated into the Late Roman fortification. ... A.D. 420. At left is the Gate of Athena, the entrance to the Roman Agora. |
http://agathe.gr/guide/panathenaic_way.html Panathenaic Way Numerous roads led in and out of the Agora square. By far the most important, however, was the broad street known as the Dromos or Panathenaic Way, the principal thoroughfare of the city ... Halfway along, it enters the Agora at its northwest corner and passes through the square on a diagonal, exiting at the southeast corner. ... The street is unpaved except to the south, as it begins the steep ascent to the Acropolis, where it was paved with large stone slabs in the Roman period. ... The line of the street was defined in the Hellenistic and Roman periods by successive open stone gutters along its south side (Fig.5). |
http://agathe.gr/guide/odeion_of_agrippa.html Odeion of Agrippa Late in the 1st century B.C. the Athenians were given money for a new marketplace by Caesar and Augustus, and the northern half of the old Agora square was filled with two new structures, ... It was surrounded on three sides by a cryptoporticus (subterranean colonnaded hall) at the lower level, with stoas above. ... Entry to the Odeion was either from the upper level of the Middle Stoa on the south or through a modest porch at ground level on the north (Fig. 53). ... Drawing of the Late Roman reuse of the Odeion of Agrippa as part of a large palace-like complex, early 5th century A.C. |
http://agathe.gr/guide/hephaisteion.html Hephaisteion Overlooking the Agora from the hill to the west (Kolonos Agoraios), is the Hephaisteion, the best preserved example of a Doric temple in mainland Greece (Fig. 12). It was dedicated jointly ... It was dedicated jointly to Hephaistos (god of the forge, the Roman Vulcan) and Athena (goddess of arts and crafts), and dates to the second half of the 5th century B.C. ... Battle scenes surmount the east and west porches, with a lively centauromachy at the west. The two bronze cult statues, done by Alkamenes and described by Pausanias, disappeared long ago. ... Conversion to a church led to the deliberate mutilation of the sculptures, except for the minotaur at the southeast corner who has retained his head. |
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