A dictionary of Greek and Roman . the build-ings connected with the Agora, and the works ofart with which it was adorned, chiefly from thestatements of Pausanias respecting those of par-ticular cities, such as Athens (i. 5. § 2), Thebes(ix. 17. § 1), Sicyon (ii. 7. § 7, 9. § 6), Argos (), Sparta (iii. 11), Tegea (viii. 47. § 3), Mega-lopolis (viii. 30. § 2), to which passages the readeris referred for the details. The buildings men-tioned in connection Avith the Agora are : — of the gods and shrines of heroes [Tem-plum], besides altars and statues of
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . the build-ings connected with the Agora, and the works ofart with which it was adorned, chiefly from thestatements of Pausanias respecting those of par-ticular cities, such as Athens (i. 5. § 2), Thebes(ix. 17. § 1), Sicyon (ii. 7. § 7, 9. § 6), Argos (), Sparta (iii. 11), Tegea (viii. 47. § 3), Mega-lopolis (viii. 30. § 2), to which passages the readeris referred for the details. The buildings men-tioned in connection Avith the Agora are : — of the gods and shrines of heroes [Tem-plum], besides altars and statues of epithet ayopcuos is often applied to a divinitywho was thus worshipped in the Agora ( cc. ; Aesch. Eumen. 976 ; Soph. Oed. , where mention is made of the circular throneof Artemis in the Agora), and Aeschylus ex-pressly refers to the &eol ayopas iirio-Koiroi ( Theb. 271, 272). 2. The Senate-house (jSouAeu-rrjpiov), and other places for the meetings of thegoverning bodies, according to the constitution of the. SECTION OP THE SAME. particular state : in the Agora at Sparta, for ex-ample, there were the senate-house of the Gerontesand the places of meeting of the Ephori, the No-mophylaces, and the Bidiaei. 3. The residence ofthe magistrates for the time being [Prytaneium].4. Courts of justice [Basilica]. 5. The publictreasury [Thesaurus], 6. The prison [Carcer].7. The police station, if such a term may be ap-plied to an ancient Agora. At Athens, for example,the station of the thousand Scythian bowmen, whoformed the police force of the state, was in themiddle of the Agora : this does not, however, seemto have been a permanent building, but only anumber of tents. 8. Buildings used for the re-gulation of the standards of measure, and so forth ;such as the building vulgarly called the Temple ofthe Winds at Athens [Horologium], and theMilliarium Aureum at Rome, which seems to havebeen imitated from a similar standard at Athens[Milliarium]. To these variou
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