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Ancient Agora of Athens

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Ancient Agora of Athens
37.971737°N 23.725051°E

In the foreground taken from the Acropolis.

The Ancient Agora of Athens dates back to the 6th century B.C. and is the site of ancient Athens and its early government. It is remarkable that we can see the places where Socrates, Plato, and other famous Greeks once lived.

Here is a list of the buildings of the ancient Agora:
Peristyle Court, Mint, Enneakrounos, South Stoa I and II, Heliaia, Strategeion, Colonos Agoraios, Tholos, Agora stone, Monument of the Eponymous Heroes, Metroon, New Bouleuterion, Temple of Hephaestus, Temple of Apollos, Stoa of Zeus, Altar of the Twelve Gods, Stoa Basileios, Temple of Aphrodite, Stoa of Hermes, and Stoa Poikile.


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View of a part of the Ancient Agora

The Ancient Agora of Classical Athens (aka Forum of Athens in older texts) is the best-known example of an ancient Greek agora, located to the northwest of the Acropolis and bounded on the south by the hill of the Areopagus and on the west by the hill known as the Kolonus Agoraios, also called Market Hill.

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