• English: This file shows the stoa of Eumenes next to the peripatos who's situated near the Acropolis in Athens.
  • Both the Acropolis and the Parthenon, the imposing temple dedicated to the goddess of wisdom Athena, are visible from almost all parts of the city.
  • It is an undisputable fact that the Acropolis of Athens is one of the most visited monuments not only in Greece but the world as well.
  • In the second half of the 4th century BC, Lycurgus, archon of Athens from 337 BC, completely renovated the old wooden theater, turning it into a stone one.
  • Although the Acropolis was the center of Athens’s religious life for centuries, it became famous in the fifth century BCE, the golden age of Athenian democracy.
  • You’ll visit : The art of the Theatre of Dionysus, Odeon of Herodes and wander along the Peripatos.
  • This sanctuary, built in a crack of the cliff on the northern side of the Acropolis, was dedicated to Aglaurus, one of the daughters of Cecrops, the first king of...
  • The Peripatos, the pathway that encircles the slopes of the Athenian Akropolis, was renovated in the late fourth century bc under Lykourgos.