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The Agora Revisited: Athenian Chronology c. 500–450 BC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

Abstract

Reasonable doubts exist with regard to the conclusions that have been drawn from the ostraca found in the Athenian Agora as well as those from the fill of the Rectangular Rock-cut shaft on the Agora Hill. These doubts extend to the dating of the buildings along the west side of the Agora. A re-examination of the published accounts leads to the conclusion that Buildings C and D, the Temple of Apollo and the shrine of Zeus were built before 480 and were destroyed by the Persians, who were also responsible for digging the Rectangular Rock-cut Shaft. Building F was erected soon after 479. By 450, the Heliaia, the Tholos, the Old Bouleuterion, a Public Records Office and the Royal Stoa were constructed. The public buildings in question all seem to have been built as a consequence of the political reforms brought about by Ephialtes in the late 460s. They are probably the few extant physical remains of the early days of Periclean democracy.

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Acknowledgements: Thanks are due to the President and Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford and the University Research Institute at the University of Texas at Austin (E.D.F.), the Wolfson Foundation, the Oxford Literae Humaniores Faculty Board, the Craven Committee, and the Ashmolean Central Travel Fund (M.V.) for their generous support of the research of which this is a part. Professor Homer Thompson kindly gave us the benefit of his thoughts on an earlier draft, Professor F. Cooper, and Dr J.J. Coulton, Dr D.W.J. Gill, and Professor J. Kroll were generous with their help and advice. Any errors are the responsibility of the authors alone. Dr Gill prepared Fig. 1 and the plans and section drawings in Figs 2–7 are taken or adapted (by Mr Keith Bennett) from reports in Hesperia and Agora 14.

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57 Ibid. 43.

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62 Thompson 1940 (n. 54) 42–3.

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74 The same observations apply to the ostracon cast against Hippocrates found beneath the packing of the floor of Building J (Thompson 1940 [n. 54 38, fig. 30d).

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88 Talcott (n. 87) 230, n. 2. The Byzantine pit dug in 1931 was in fact some ten metres away from the temple-like building beneath the Stoa of Zeus (information kindly supplied by Dr Margot C. Camp in a letter of February 1983)

89 Talcott (n. 87) 230: ‘The evidence of the excavation, then, gives the year 480 as a terminus ante quem for the making of the two cups’.

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93 The first such plan is in Agora Guide 1 (Athens, 1954) 18, fig. 3; thenceforth the building in question is always shown as rectangular: most recently Camp (n. 8) 37.

94 Talcott (n. 87) 230.

95 Agora Guide 3 (Athens, 1976) 79; cf. Thompson 1937 (n. 54) 14; Thompson-Wycherley (n. 78) 96.

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99 Agora Guide 2 (Athens, 1962) 161 and Agora Guide 3 (Athens, 1976) 245, date the white-ground cup to ‘ca. 480–470 BC’.

100 Thompson-Wycherley (n. 78) 29, n. 25.

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110 E.g. Thompson-Wycherley (n. 78) 35; Agora Guide 3 (1976) 67.

111 Thompson 1937 (n. 54) 140.

112 Thompson-Wycherley (n. 78) 29, n. 25; 71.

113 Thompson 1937 (n. 54) pl. 6.

114 On the northeast entrance of the New Bouleuterion, see Thompson 1937 (n. 54) 150, 220.

115 Thompson 1937 (n. 54) 84.

116 Ibid., 55–6, pl. 3.

117 Ibid., 105 (cf. 85, where the length for the plinth was estimated to have been 1.50 metres in length and 0.65 metres deep), pl. 5.

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