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ANCIENT AGORA

ANCIENT AGORA
The Agora was the heart of ancient Athens, the focus of political, commercial, administrative and social activity, the religious and cultural centre, and the seat of justice. The site was occupied without interruption in all periods of the city's history. It was used as a residential and burial area as early as the Late Neolithic period (3000 B.C.). Early in the 6th century, in the time of Solon, the Agora became a public area. After a series of repairs and remodellings, it reached its final rectangular form in the 2nd century B.C. Extensive building activity occured after the serious damage made by the Persians in 480/79 B.C., by the Romans in 89 B.C. and by the Herulae in A.D. 267 while, after the Slavic invasion in A.D. 580, It was gradually abandoned. From the Byzantine period until after 1834, when Athens became the capital of the independent Greek state, the Agora was again developed as a residential area.

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ABOUT ANCIENT AGORA

Excavations

Temple of Hephaistos

Stoa of Zeus Eleutherios

Temple of Apollo Patroos

Bouleuterion - Metroon

Monument of the Eponymous Heroes

Altar of the Twelve Gods

The Odeion of Agrippa

The Royal Stoa (Stoa Basileios)

Tholos

ANCIENT AGORA VIDEOS

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ANCIENT AGORA PHOTOS

THE ANCIENT AGORA OF ATHENS - The Odeion of Agrippa - It was built by Agrippa in 15 B.C. and comprised an auditorium with a seating capacity of about 1000 people, and a two-storeyed portico. It was destroyed by fire in A.D. 267 and in about A.D. 400 the Gymnasium was erected.