The Athenian Agora

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The Athenian Agora : museum guide / by Laura Gawlinski ; with photographs by Craig A. Mauzy.
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Previous edition catalogued under title: Athenian Agora a guide to the excavation and museum
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ISBN 978-0-87661-658-1 (alkaline paper)
1. Museum of the Ancient Agora (Athens, Greece)—Guidebooks. 2. Agora (Athens, Greece)—
Guidebooks. 3. Archaeological museums and collections—Greece—Athens—Guidebooks. I. Title.
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Hellenistic, Roman, and 171
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List of Publications 190
Index 195
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FOREWORD
This is the first stand-alone edition of the Athenian Agora
Museum Guide and is intended as a companion to the fifth edition of
the Athenian Agora Site Guide (J. McK. Camp II, 2010), which uses
the icon M to highlight objects in the museum. Further information
about the antiquities and monuments of the site as well as a short his-
tory can be found there. Some material, particularly plans and images,
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n arranged following the order of display in the different areas of the
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At the end of the book, the reader will find a list of the publica-
tions of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens that spe-
cifically concern material recovered from the Agora. Digital versions
of a number of publications, and many other resources, are available
through the Web site of the Agora excavations, http://www.ascsa.edu.
gr/index.php/excavationagora.
This guide includes new color images, prepared by Craig
A. Mauzy. Archival images were taken by a succession of Agora
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photo graphers: Alison Franz, James Heyle, Eugene Vanderpool
Jr., Robert K. Vincent, and Craig A. Mauzy. Most of the drawings
are the work of successive staff architects: John Travlos, William B.
Dinsmoor Jr., and Richard Anderson. Support for the publication of
the guidebook was provided in part by a grant from the Charles A.
Dana Foundation.
Work in the Athenian Agora is sponsored by the American School
of Classical Studies at Athens and the Packard Humanities Institute,
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a PREHISTORY AND PROTOHISTORY (3200–700 B.C.) ARCHAIC PERIOD (700–480 B.C.) CLASSICAL PERIOD (480–323 B.C.) HELLENISTIC PERIOD (323–86 B.C.)
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ol Late Neolithic period. Introduction of black-figure style of Age of Perikles, rise of Athens.
o Earliest recorded habitation in painted pottery to Athens.
h Athens on the Acropolis slopes. 431–404 B.C.
c ca. 600 B.C. Peloponnesian War, Athens
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n Early and Middle Helladic beginnings of Athenian democracy. 421–415 B.C.)
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e ca. 1550–1100 B.C. Rule of the tyrant Peisistratos and Death of Sokrates.
m Mycenaean period (Late his sons Hippias and Hipparchos.
A Helladic or Late Bronze Age). Assassination of Hipparchos, 338 B.C.
4 Period of Greek mythology: fall 514 B.C. Rise of Macedon under Philip II and
1 of Troy; Jason and the Argonauts; Alexander; Battle of Chaironeia
0 Theseus and the Minotaur. ca. 515 B.C. (338 B.C.); Lykourgos in charge of
2 Red-figure style of painted pottery Athenian finances, 338–326 B.C.
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ca. 1100–700 B.C. appears in the Agora.
Protogeometric and Geometric 323 B.C.
periods (Early Iron Age). 508/7 B.C. Death of Alexander the Great.
Period of Greek colonization/ Creation of Athenian democracy
migration; Olympic games start, under Kleisthenes.
776 B.C.; introduction of the 490–479 B.C.
alphabet; Iliad and Odyssey. Persian Wars: Battles of Marathon
(490 B.C.), Thermopylai (480 B.C.),
Salamis (480 B.C.), and Plataia
(479 B.C.). Athens destroyed by
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CLASSICAL PERIOD (480–323 B.C.) a HELLENISTIC PERIOD (323–86 B.C.) ROMAN PERIOD (86 B.C.–A.D. 250) LATE ROMAN AND BYZANTINE (A.D. 250 +)
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ol Macedonian occupation of Athens Reign of Augustus. Athens and the Agora burned by the
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h A.D. 117–138
c Early 3rd century B.C. Reign of Hadrian. A.D. 330
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n painted pottery begins. A.D. 138–161
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m begins. Visit of Pausanias to Athens. Agora.
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2nd century B.C. A.D. 529
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1 Production of Neo-Attic sculpture Schools of Athens closed by the
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Building of the Stoa of Attalos, Devastation probably caused by
funded by Attalos II, king of Slavs; abandonment of the Agora.
Pergamon.
10th–12th centuries A.D.
146 B.C. Reoccupation of Agora area;
Ascendancy of Rome in Greece. Sack Church of the Holy Apostles built.
of Corinth by Mummius.
86 B.C.
Siege and capture of Athens by the
Roman general Sulla.