. eIlissus, where the road to Phalerum the E. side, going from S. to N.:—(5) The outer Ceramicus; the S. part of the innerCeramicus contained the Agora (ayopd), or market-place. The political Agora occupiedthe space immediately surrounding the Areio-pagus and between the Areiopagus, Pnyx andAcropolis, and there also was the market-placeof commerce; but as business increased, themarket for buying and selling was pushedfurther out into the Ceramicus N. and NE. tothe neighbourhood of the Stoa of Attalos andthe Colonos Agoraios
. eIlissus, where the road to Phalerum the E. side, going from S. to N.:—(5) The outer Ceramicus; the S. part of the innerCeramicus contained the Agora (ayopd), or market-place. The political Agora occupiedthe space immediately surrounding the Areio-pagus and between the Areiopagus, Pnyx andAcropolis, and there also was the market-placeof commerce; but as business increased, themarket for buying and selling was pushedfurther out into the Ceramicus N. and NE. tothe neighbourhood of the Stoa of Attalos andthe Colonos Agoraios (the hill on which thetemple falsely called Theseum stands; and inRoman times further East to the Stoa ofHadrian and gate of Athene Archegetis. Thisgate of Athene Archegetis was built from dona-tions of Julius Caesar and Augustus, as an in-scription on it records. It seems to mark theSE. entrance to the Agora of the Roman period:whether, as some have conjectured, it was de-signed to mark some special point in stateprocessions, cannot be determined. The re-. Gate of Diochares (at Aioxdpovs ir.), leading tothe Lyceum.—6. The Dio?nean Gate (f] Aio/iTyisttvAt], Alciphr. iii. 51, 4), leading to Cynosargesand the demus Diomea. On the NE. side:(7) The Achamian Gate (at AxapviKal ir.),leading to the demus Acharnae on the North.—8. The Knights Gate(ai I7r7ra8es nv\at, 51, 4) whose position is not known. Sometake it to be an exit near the Olympieum lead-ing to Sunium. There were other unnamedgates : one leading to the Stadium prob-ably existed. It must be observed that nearthese gates (great double gates, and thereforeusually, though not invariably, spoken of inthe plural) there was a postern door (irv\is),for foot-passengers: near the Achar-nian _ Gate (Plat. Lys. p. 203 a). — ChiefDistricts. The inner Ceramicus (Kepa-H^ikSs), or Potters Quarter, in the W. ofthe city, extending N. as far as the gateDipylon by which it was separated from the mains now extan
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