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Ancient Agora
The heart of ancient Athens was the 6th-century BC Agora,
the lively focal point of administrative, commercial, polit-
ical and social activity. Socrates expounded his philosophy
here, and in AD 49 St Paul came here to win converts to
Christianity. Devastated by the Persians in 480 BC, it was
rebuilt and flourished through Pericles' time and until AD
267, when it was destroyed by the Herulians. The Turks
built a residential quarter here, but archaeologists demol-
ished it after Independence and later excavated to classical
and, in parts, neolithic levels.
adult/child €4/2, with Acropolis
pass free
8am-3pm, museum closed
8-11am Mon
Monastiraki
Temple of Hephaestus (
Click here
)
, Ancient Agora
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