[Agora Webpage] Overview: The Card Catalog

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The Card Catalog A card catalog system has been used since the beginning of the excavations to record the important information related to inventoried objects. Lucy Talcott, one of the original members ... 1, the first architectural ... Card for A 1. Catalog card ... Section E.

[Agora Webpage] Overview: The Site before Excavation

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The Site before Excavation The Agora lies on sloping ground northwest of the Acropolis, below and east of the extraordinarily well-preserved Doric temple of Hephaistos, popularly known as the “Theseion” ... railroad, (e.) German and Greek ... the site in 1890/1, and other areas (e.g., e) were

[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 16 2003: Odeion of Agrippa

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Odeion of Agrippa Late in the 1st century B.C. the Athenians were given money for a new marketplace by Caesar and Augustus, and the northern half of the old Agora square was filled with two new structures, ... in the 1st century B.C ... seated about 1,000 spectators ... the Odeion, 1st phase (late

[Agora Webpage] Overview: The Notebooks

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The Notebooks The process of excavating an archaeological site is essentially destructive but the irrevocable features are preserved in a notebook. The excavator records his thoughts and observations, ... 21, Block 631 (Section E ... εργολάβοϚ [contractor]” (Nb. Ε 1

[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 16 2003: Temple of Apollo Patroos

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Temple of Apollo Patroos Next to the Stoa of Zeus at the south are the remains of a small temple of Apollo Patroos (Fatherly), so-called because he was the father of Ion, founder of the Ionian Greeks, ... (Pausanias 1.3.4) Figure 11.

[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 16 2003: Altar of the Twelve Gods

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Altar of the Twelve Gods Near the middle of the open square, somewhat to the north, lay the Altar of the Twelve Gods (Fig. 7), today largely hidden under the Athens–Piraeus railway (1891). A corner of ... during his archonship (522/1 ... 522/1 B.C., with later

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: Tyranny

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Tyranny As happened in many other Greek states, a tyrant arose in Athens in the 6th century B.C. His name was Peisistratos, and after several unsuccessful attempts he seized power in 546 B.C. and ruled ... (Herodotus 1.64), Aristotle's ... 16.1-2) Aristotle has further ... Miltiades. For 599/1 B.C. we can

[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 16 2003: Lawcourts

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Lawcourts Underlying the north end of the Stoa of Attalos are the slight remains of a group of buildings dating to the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. (Fig. 50). Largely open courtyards, they seem to have served ...

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: The Athenian Aristocracy

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The Athenian Aristocracy Before democracy, from the 8th to the 6th century B.C., Athens was prosperous economically but no more significant than many other city-states in Greece. Silver deposits south ... 3.1) At times these

[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 16 2003: Introduction

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Introduction Classical Athens saw the rise of an achievement unparalleled in history. Perikles, Aeschylus, Sophokles, Plato, Demosthenes, Thucydides, and Praxiteles represent just a few of the statesmen ... public life. Figure 1. Plan ... (Fig. 1; and restored

[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 16 2003: Mint

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Mint Just east of the fountain house lie the miserable remains of a large square building with several rooms; the northern half lies under the Church of the Holy Apostles and the Southeast Temple (Early ...

[Agora Webpage] Overview: The Excavations

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The Excavations Excavations in the Athenian Agora by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens commenced in 1931 under the supervision of T. Leslie Shear. The systematic excavation of this important ... [Nb.] E I, p. 74; May 25, ... Attalos; (e) Section Ε,

[Agora Webpage] Overview: The Staff

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The Archaeologists The First Generation The Agora Excavations staff and work force, 1933. Archaeologists, staff, foremen, and workmen gathered under the Hephaisteion for a group photograph. The staff of ... E.V. studying the text of ... Archaeology Magazine (vol. 1, no. 1, 1948, p. 13). Young was

[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 16 2003: Church of the Holy Apostles

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Church of the Holy Apostles Several churches were removed following the excavation of the modern neighborhoods overlying the Agora. The Church of the Holy Apostles, because of its early date, was deemed ...

[Agora Webpage] Overview: Contact

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Staff and Contact Information The Agora Excavations offices are located within the ancient Agora archaeological site, on the upper floor of the Stoa of Attalos. The offices in the Stoa of Attalos are open ... Mauzy e-mail: fax: +30 ... treatments and materials, i.e ... M4W 1K1 Canada Email:

[Agora Webpage] Publications: Monographs

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Monographs Excavations in the civic and cultural center of classical Athens began in 1931 and have continued almost without interruption to the present day. The first Athenian Agora volumes presenting ... B.C. Author: Brann, E. T ... Author: Harrison, E ... 978-0-87661-201-9Volume: 1 Presented in

[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 16 2003: Monument of the Eponymous Heroes

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Monument of the Eponymous Heroes Across the street from the Metroon lie the remains of the Monument of the Eponymous Heroes (Fig. 21). When Kleisthenes created the democracy in 508/7 B.C., he assigned ... (Pausanias 1.5)

[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 16 2003: History of the Agora

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History of the Agora The excavations of the Athenian Agora have uncovered about thirty acres on the sloping ground northwest of the Acropolis (Fig. 3). Material of all periods from the Late Neolithic to ... 1.153) A gradual change from ... 1st century B.C. Athens

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: The Athenian Army

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The Athenian Army From the very beginning, the Athenians were compelled to fight for their new democracy. Their dramatic victories over the Boiotians and Chalkidians in 506 B.C. led many to attribute Athenian ... assessment of a horse was 1 ... Commander 3.11 translated by E

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: Political Organization of Attica

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Political Organization of Attica: Demes and Tribal Representation Each tribe was divided into three parts, and each third (trittys) was from one of the three regions of Attica, plain, coast, or hills ... red-painted letters, 222/1 B.C. H.:

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: Solon the Lawgiver

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Solon the Lawgiver By the early 6th century B.C. social tensions in Athens had become acute, pitting the poorer citizens against rich and powerful landowners. Many citizens were reduced to the status of ... distributed among them. 1

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: Women

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The Unenfranchised I - Women Numerous people resident in Athens and Attica had little part in the political life of the state. Most glaring by modern standards was the exclusion of women, although a similar ...

[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 4 2004: Military Service

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Military Service After the 18-year-old was registered in his deme as a citizen and was approved by the Council, he entered military service as a young conscript (ephebe) with other members of his tribe ...

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: Theater

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Theater Western drama was an Athenian invention which developed late in the 6th century B.C. out of the festivals celebrated in honor of the god Dionysos. Originally held in the Agora, the plays were soon ...

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: Practice of Ostracism

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Ostracism Soon after their victory over the Persians at the battle of Marathon in 490 B.C., the Athenians began the practice of ostracism, a form of election designed to curb the power of any rising tyrant ... Megakles (14.1), may have had a

[Agora Webpage] Publications: Picture Books

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Picture Books The Athenian Agora Picture Book series, started in 1951, aims to make information about life in the ancient commercial and political center of Athens available to a wide audience. Each booklet ... 0876616015Picture Book: 1 By mingling ... Harrison, E. B.Publication Date: ... Griswold, R. E.Publication Date: