Agora Image: 2009.05.0002: The Athenian Agora at the time Socrates and Ischomachos had their conversation. The Stoa of Zeus is at the upper left (1). Other places mentioned in this book are the Stoa Poikile (2), Crossroads Shrine (3), Courthouse (5), shops and houses just outside the agora (4, 6, 9), Panathenaic Way (7), and Southeast Fountain House (8).