In front of us, to the east, rises the marble facade of the Stoa presented by Attalos II, King of Pergamon, 159-138 BC, to the city of Athens in which he had studied as a youth. The building was restored in the years 1953-56 by the American School of Classical […]

Horses were an integral part of life in ancient Greece; they played an active role in warfare, in transportation, and in the games which were such an important and regular feature of Greek society. Athenian enthusiasm for the horse is expressed in numerous ways in the Agora. Here the Athenian […]