Tuesday, August 18, 2009

The Roman Agora


The original Agora in Athens was quickly loosing it's old function as a market/forum during the last century Bc due to all the new buildings and monuments being put up there. Caesar and Augustus thus so it fit to donate founds for the construction of a new Agora - this is the entrance to this new marketplace (constructed in Pentalic marble ca 11 Bc).

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