[Agora Image] 2010.01.0362

Plan showing location of archaeological deposits known to date from the clean-up after the destruction of Athens at the hands of the Persians in 480/79 B.C ... PD 2653 Horizontal (normal) ... destruction of Athens at the hands of the Persians in 480/79 B.C.

[Agora Image] 2000.02.0891 (Slide Sheet: 49:01 Slide Set: 12:10)

Jars from the debris of the destruction of Athens by the Persians, 480 B.C. Far left, Corinthian A (P 12795); front row, from left, Corinthian B/Corcyraean (P 24126 and P 24887); Attic (?) (P 24882). Back ... 1 Jun 2000 ... Site | By Area | East | Stoa of Attalos | Reconstruction | Ground Floor | Shop ... Site | By Type | Stoas | Stoa of Attalos

[Agora Publication Page] Agora 11, s. 203, p. 184

Peleus and Thetis. Repairs to sculpture in antiquity. Peplos in archaistic sculpture. Perirrhanteria in the form of archaistic korai. Retrograde inscriptions. Persephone. Re-use of sculpture in antiquity ... Agora 11 184 ... Persian sack of Athens, 480 B.C. ... Sulla: sack of Athens in 86 B.C. ... Sulla; sack of Peiraeus

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: Practice of Ostracism

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Ostracism Soon after their victory over the Persians at the battle of Marathon in 490 B.C., the Athenians began the practice of ostracism, a form of election designed to curb the power of any rising tyrant ... Birth of Democracy: Practice of Ostracism

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: Factional Politics

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Factional Politics: The Ostracism of Themistokles A group of ostraka found together in a pit on the North Slope of the Acropolis is of special interest. There were 190 ostraka, mostly the round feet of ... Salamis in 480 B.C., as did ... fallen city of Athens, Xerxes ... ostracized in 472 B.C. and died in

[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 16 2003: History of the Agora

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History of the Agora The excavations of the Athenian Agora have uncovered about thirty acres on the sloping ground northwest of the Acropolis (Fig. 3). Material of all periods from the Late Neolithic to ... AgoraPicBk 16 2003: History of the Agora

[Agora Webpage] Overview: The Archaeological Site

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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 ... together in the heart of Athens, ... century B.C. Administrative ... of the Persians in 480

[Agora Deposit] E 15:6: Well F

A well (diameter 1.10m) at the east edge of the valley road leading from the SW corner of the Agora, about 90m SW of the Tholos. The mouth of the well was subsequently covered by the east wall of the Great ... Ca. 500-480 B.C ... Ca. 500-480 B.C.