The Temple of Hephaestus
On top of Agoraios Kolonos hill, which is delimiting the Ancient Agora of Athens to the west, stands the temple of Hephaestus, broadly known as Thisio. It is one of the best preserved ancient temples, partly because it was transformed into a Christian church. According to the traveler and geographer Pausanias (1, 14, 5-6), two […]
The Stoa of Attalos
The Stoa on the east side of the Ancient Agora, was gift of Attalos II, King of Pergamon, as a fragmentary inscription on the epistyle of its lower colonnade shows: «King Attalos, son of Attalos and of Queen Apollonis». The building is 120 m wide and 20 m deep and had two floors with a […]
The Ancient Agora of Athens
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 Ancient Agora of Athens is a flat area defined by the Sacred Rock of the Acropolis, the hill of Areopagus in the south and the hill of […]
The Herod Atticus Odeon
The famous Herod Atticus Odeon dominates the western end on the south hillside of the Acropolis. It was the third Odeon constructed in ancient Athens after the Pericles Odeon on the south slope (fifth century) and the Agrippa’s Odeon in the ancient Agora (15 BC). The construction of the monument during the second century AD […]
