{"id":292,"date":"2015-04-26T20:17:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T00:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/?page_id=292"},"modified":"2026-07-31T00:33:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:33:30","slug":"agora","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/greece\/athens\/agora\/","title":{"rendered":"Agora"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"292\" class=\"elementor elementor-292 elementor-bc-flex-widget\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f6n671h elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"f6n671h\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-et032qa\" data-id=\"et032qa\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b5fgxl1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b5fgxl1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Agora, below the northwest slope of the Acropolis, was the political, commercial, and social heart of ancient Athens &#8211; a gathering place for merchants, philosophers, and citizens conducting the daily business of the world&#8217;s first democracy. Its ruins include the Altar of the Twelve Gods, a central point from which distances across Attica were measured; the old and new Bouleuterion, meeting halls for the Council of 500; the Tholos, the round building where the presiding council members ate and even slept while on duty; the Metroon, sanctuary of the Mother of the Gods and keeper of the state archives; and the Monument of the Eponymous Heroes, where public notices were posted. The best-preserved building on site is the Hephaesteum, a Doric temple dedicated to Hephaestus, whose metopes depict the labors of Theseus and Heracles. The reconstructed Stoa of Attalos, a two-story colonnaded building, now houses the Agora Museum and its collection of artifacts recovered from the site, including voting equipment used in the world&#8217;s earliest experiment in citizen self-government. [Editor&#8217;s note: the original site had only brief photo labels for this page. This paragraph was drafted as a placeholder and should be reviewed\/expanded by Dr. Siegel.]<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-i5qrw2a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"i5qrw2a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&nbsp;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Agora, below the northwest slope of the Acropolis, was the political, commercial, and social heart of ancient Athens &#8211; a gathering place for merchants, philosophers, and citizens conducting the daily business of the world&#8217;s first democracy. Its ruins include the Altar of the Twelve Gods, a central point from which distances across Attica were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":30,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-292","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/292\/revisions\/1335"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/drjclassics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}