<Location> Theatre of Dionysos Site, Athens, Attica, Greece
This two-storey stoa is located at the southern footskirt of the Acropolis, between the Odeion of Herodes Attikos and the Theatre of Dionysos. This photo was shot from the West toward the East.
The stoa was a gift from the king of Pergamon, Eumenes II (197-159 BCE). It was partly destructed in the third century CE, but originally it was 163 metre long. This might have been constrected by the architect of the Stoa of Attalos (in the Agora), as there are several similarities including the Pergamon style chaptres.
It is mostly made of marble from Pergamon, except the back-wall next to the Acropolis, that is in turn made of blue-gray Hymettian marble.
This stoa used also as a shelter for the people who visited the theatre of Dionysos, when it rained (Vitruvius V, 9, 1).
In the third century AD, some of the stone blocks were dismantled to construct the defense wall.
The fortification wall constructed by the Ottomans in 1687 - Serpentzes wall - incorporated this stoa and the Odeion of Herodes Atticus.
