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4. THOLOS
The 50-member executive committee of the first parliament lived and worked in this
circular building, whose name translates as “beehive”.
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5. GREAT DRAIN
When Athens experiences a downpour, the still functioning Great Drain collects run-
off from the Acropolis, Areopagos and Agora, and sends it to the now mostly dry
Eridanos river.
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6. MONUMENT OF THE EPONYMOUS HEROES
Citizens were divided into 10 tribes
(phylae)
, each represented by a different Attican
hero. This monument, dated 350 BC, had bronze statues of each representative tribal
hero: Antiochos, Ajax, Leos, Hippothoon, Erechtheus, Aegeus, Cecrops, Akamas,
Pandion and Oeneus.
7. ALTAR OF ZEUS AGORAIOS
This lavish temple to the ruler of the gods was originally built elsewhere in Athens
(possibly the Pnyx) in the 4th century BC. In the first century AD, it was dismantled,
brought to the Agora and reconstructed.
8. MIDDLE STOA
The large Middle Stoa took up the major part of the central marketplace, its two
aisles lined with Doric columns.
9. NYMPHAION
The ruins of the Nymphaion, an elaborate 2nd-century fountain-house, are still vis-
ible, despite the building of a Byzantine church over it in the 11th century.
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