By mingling images on well-preserved Greek vases with the more fragmentary ...More
Named after its donor, the King of Pergamon, the Stoa of Attalos was origin...More
Small sculptured figures of humans and animals have been found all over the...More
Although the famous bronze statues seen by the Roman tourist Pausanias have...More
Although this booklet is based on broken pottery found during the excavatio...More
The story of the Agora did not end in A.D. 267, when the Herulians invaded ...More
In the spring, the ground of the Agora archaeological park is covered in po...More
At night, the darkness of the ancient Agora would have been pierced by the ...More
Preserved beneath the surface of the Agora are thousands of terracotta pipe...More
As well as being a political center, the Agora was the focus of a noisy and...More
Before the creation of the Agora as a civic center in the 7th century B.C.,...More
Like fragments of overheard conversations, the thousands of informal inscri...More
Over 75,000 coins have been found during excavations at the Agora, many min...More
As far as we know, the 5th-century B.C. Greek philosopher Socrates himself ...More
From the thousands of pieces of Late Roman small change discovered trodden ...More
Religion played a part in almost every aspect of civic life, so shrines, te...More
The prominence of the Temple of Hephaistos, Greek god of metalworkers, situ...More
While this booklet is illustrated solely with materials from the Athenian A...More
As well as the Little Owl or glaux, so often seen accompanying the goddess ...More
Athens was a famously litigious city in antiquity, as the sheer quantity of...More
This concise and beautifully illustrated book demonstrates the many roles p...More
