Gate of Athena Archegetis, Roman Agora

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<Location> Roman Agora, Athens, Attica, Greece
<Also Known As> West Propylon, Gate of "Athena the Originator"

The Roman Agora had two main entrances, one is the East Propylon (at the eastern end of the agora), and the other West Propylon, also known as the Gate of Athena Archegetis (meaning Athena the Originator [of Athens]). This is the latter gate; it is Doric tetrastyle.

In the photo above is the gate seen from the West (from outside the Roman agora site), and below is the same gate seen from the East (from inside the site).

From the inscription on the entabulature (IG. 2² 3175, 11-9 BC), we know that this gate, and the whole agora was dedicated to Athena Archegetis by divus (divine, meaning postumously deified), and the divus filius (the divine son) Caesar Augustus.

Reference

• Christian Habicht, Athens from Alexander to Antony, translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider, Cambridge Massachusetts/ Harvard UP 1997, p. 333.
• Christopher Mee & Antony Spawforth, Greece. An Oxford Archaeological Guide , Oxford/ OUP, 2001, p. 74.
• Robin Barbar, Greece (Blue Guide), London- N.Y. 2001 (Revised reprint of the 6th edition of 1995), p. 104

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Roman Agora & Other Monuments around It

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+ Tower of the Winds
+ Unidentified Public Building
 and the East Propylon
+ Gate og Athena Archegetes
+ Byzantine Building Elements
+ Fetiye Mosque
+ Other Monuments
  * Eastern Half of the R. Agora
  * Shops
  * Fountain House
  * Statues of the Puglic Figures
  * R. Agora Seen from the East
  * Fountain
  * Drainage
  * Olive Press
  * Public Toilet
  * Statue of Lion
  * Erased Inscription
  * Part of Inscription

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