[Agora Publication Page] Agora 3, s. 159, p. 149

Dow, Prytaneis, pp. 198ff. H.S.C.P., L, 1939, pp. 1ff. Hesperia, XIX, 1950, p. 336. Pollux, X, 61. Bekker, Anecdota Graeca, I, 47, 13. Desmoterion. Judeich, p. 357. Plato, Phaedo, 59d. Demosthenes, XXIV ... Agora 3 149 ... Desmoterion

[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 16 2003: Southwest Area

http://agathe.gr/guide/southwest_area.html

Southwest Area - Industry and Houses Leaving the area of the boundary stone, one can head southwest up a valley leading toward the Pnyx, meeting place of the Athenian assembly. Here are the complex remains ... It has been suggested that this might be the State Prison (desmoterion), where Sokrates and others convicted of political crimes were executed.