[Agora Webpage] Overview: The Archaeological Site

http://agathe.gr/overview/the_archaeological_site.html

The Athenian Agora The Agora of Athens was the center of the ancient city: a large, open square where the citizens could assemble for a wide variety of purposes. On any given day the space might be used ... The Athenian Agora The Agora of Athens was the center of the ancient city: a large, open square where the citizens could assemble for a wide variety of purposes. ... Here administrative, political, judicial, commercial, social, cultural, and religious activities all found a place together in the heart of Athens, and the square was surrounded by the public buildings necessary to run the Athenian government. ... It is during this “Classical” period that the Agora and its buildings were frequented by statesmen such as Themistokles, Perikles, and Demosthenes, by the poets Aeschylos, Sophokles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, by the writers Thucydides and Herodotos, by artists such as Pheidias and Polygnotos, and by philosophers such as Sokrates, Plato, and Aristotle.

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[Agora Image] 1997.10.0332 (XLVIII-72)

View showing the Philosophers replaced on their bases ... southwest ... 31 Jul 1951 ... View showing the Philosophers replaced on their bases.

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[Agora Image] 2012.53.0245 (XLVIII-72)

View showing the Philosophers replaced on their bases ... AMS southwest Horizontal (normal) ... 31 Jul 1951 ... View showing the Philosophers replaced on their bases.

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[Agora Image] 2004.01.1478 (HAT 51-139)

View showing the Philosophers replaced on their bases ... southwest ... 1951 ... View showing the Philosophers replaced on their bases.

[Agora Publication] Oliver (1967): Philosophers and Procurators, Relatives of the Aemilius Juncus of Vita Commodi 4, 11

Oliver, James H ... American School of Classical Studies at Athens ... Hesperia 36.1 1 42-56 10.2307_147616 ... 1967 ... Philosophers and Procurators, Relatives of the Aemilius Juncus of Vita Commodi 4, 11

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[Agora Image] 1997.10.0333 (XXIX-58)

Fragment of a winged creature from the throne of a Philosopher. Pentelic marble. Left side view ... ca. 1947

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[Agora Image] 2012.51.1454 (XXIX-58)

Fragment of a winged creature from the throne of a Philosopher. Pentelic marble. Left side view ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... ca. 1947

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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 1, s. 7, p. vii

Preface. List of Plates. Abbreviations and Bibliography. Introduction. Catalogue. Observations on Athenian Portrait Style in the Roman Period. The Romanization of Greek Portraits. The Late Republican Period ... Agora 1 vii ... The Augustan Period ... Athenian Portraits in the Style of the Roman Empire ... The "Philosophers"