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    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...
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    "I speak in public". The Ancient Agora of Athens was situated beneath the northern slope of the Acropolis. The Ancient Agora was the primary meeting ground...
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    The Stoa of Attalos (also spelled Attalus) was a stoa (covered walkway or portico) in the Agora of Athens, Greece. It was built by and named after King...
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    The Roman Agora (Greek: Ρωμαϊκή Αγορά) at Athens is located to the north of the Acropolis and to the east of the Ancient Agora. The Roman Agora was built...
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  • in the Agora of Athens is an ancient synagogue located in the Ancient Agora of Athens. During an excavation in the summer of 1977, a piece of Pentelic...
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    Stoa Poikile (category Ancient Agora of Athens)
    around 460 BC on the north side of the Ancient Agora of Athens. It was one of the most famous sites in ancient Athens, owing its fame to the paintings...
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    Church of the Holy Apostles, also known as Holy Apostles of Solaki (Greek: Άγιοι Απόστολοι Σολάκη), is located in the Ancient Agora of Athens, Greece...
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    ingenuity. Pottery in ancient Greece was most often the work of slaves. Many of the potters of Athens assembled between the agora and the Dipylon, in the...
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    The city of Athens (Ancient Greek: Ἀθῆναι, Athênai [a.tʰɛ̂ː.nai̯]; Modern Greek: Αθήναι, Athine [a.ˈθi.ne̞] or, more commonly and in singular, Αθήνα, Athina...
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    Third place (category Quality of life)
    Oldenburg. Locales of this type have been identified throughout human history. Ancient Greeks and their agora, or public squares, are among some of the first well-documented...
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    Stoa Basileios (Ancient Greek: στοὰ βασίλειος), meaning Royal Stoa, was a Doric stoa in the northwestern corner of the Athenian Agora, which was built...
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    South Stoa II was a stoa on the south side of the Agora in ancient Athens. It formed the south side of an enclosed complex called the South Square, which...
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    Southwest Temple (category Ancient Agora of Athens)
    southwest part of the Ancient Agora of Athens. Fragments from the temple found throughout the Agora enable a full, if tentative, reconstruction of the temple's...
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    of Aphrodite Urania (Ancient Greek: ἱερὸν Ἀφροδίτης Οὐρανίας, romanized: hieron Aphroditēs Ouranias) was located north-west of the Ancient Agora of Athens...
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    Stoicism (redirect from Ethics of Stoicism)
    founded in the ancient Agora of Athens by Zeno of Citium around 300 BC. Alongside Aristotle's ethics, the Stoic tradition forms one of the major founding...
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    Thiseio (redirect from Thiseion, Athens)
    neighbourhood in the old city of Athens, Greece, northwest of the Acropolis, and surrounded by the archaeological sites of the Agora, Keramikos and Pnyx. The...
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    East Building was a rectangular structure at the south end of the Agora in ancient Athens. It was built in the mid-second century BC as the east side...
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  • The law courts of ancient Athens (4th and 6th centuries BC) were a fundamental organ of democratic governance. According to Aristotle, whoever controls...
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    for perhaps 5,000 years. Situated in southern Europe, Athens became the leading city of Ancient Greece in the first millennium BC, and its cultural achievements...
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    Strategeion (category Ancient Agora of Athens)
    in the Ancient Agora of Athens, Greece, is known as the meeting room of the ten Strategoi of ancient Athens. Having been built atop two ancient graves...
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    The Acropolis of Athens (Ancient Greek: ἡ Ἀκρόπολις τῶν Ἀθηνῶν, romanized: hē Akropolis tōn Athēnōn; Modern Greek: Ακρόπολη Αθηνών, romanized: Akrópoli...
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    The Temple of Ares was a Doric hexastyle peripteral temple dedicated to Ares, located in the northern part of the Ancient Agora of Athens. Fragments from...
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  • up agora in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Agora is a general name for a public meeting place in ancient Greece. Agora may also refer to: Agora (film)...
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    Square Peristyle (category Ancient Agora of Athens)
    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 Grece...
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    The Odeon of Agrippa was a large odeon located in the centre of the ancient Agora of Athens. It was built about 15 BC, occupying what had previously been...
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    Athens (/ˈæθɪnz/ ATH-inz; Greek: Αθήνα, romanized: Athína, pronounced [aˈθina] ; Ancient Greek: Ἀθῆναι, romanized: Athênai, pronounced [atʰɛ̂ːnai̯]) is...
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    Southeast Temple (category Ancient Agora of Athens)
    southeast corner of the Ancient Agora of Athens. Architectural fragments from the temple enable a full, if tentative, reconstruction of its appearance.These...
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    The Monument of the Eponymous Heroes, located in the Ancient Agora of Athens (No. 10 on the map on the right), Greece adjacent to the Metroon (old Bouleuterion...
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    conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in the Agora, to the south of the railway, the southwest corner of an enclosure was discovered...
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    Architecture of ancient Greece Acropolis Acropolis of Athens Agora Ancient Agora of Athens Ancient Greek baths Greek baths of Gela Greek Baths in ancient Olympia...
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