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The Temple of Ares was a Doric hexastyle peripteral temple dedicated to Ares, located in the northern part of the Ancient Agora of Athens. Fragments from the temple found throughout the Agora enable a full, if tentative, reconstruction of the temple's appearance and sculptural programme.
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View of the ancient agora. The temple of Hephaestus is to the left and the Stoa of Attalos to the right.. The ancient Agora of Athens (also called the Classical Agora) is the best-known example of an ancient Greek agora, located to the northwest of the Acropolis and bounded on the south by the hill of the Areopagus and on the west by the hill known as the Agoraios Kolonos, also called Market ...
The Areopagus as viewed from the Acropolis. Engraved plaque containing Apostle Paul's Areopagus sermon.. The Areopagus (/ æ r i ˈ ɒ p ə ɡ ə s /) is a prominent rock outcropping located northwest of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.
Ares, 2nd–3rd century AD, after a Greek bronze original by Alkamenes dated 420 BC, [citation needed], excavated in 1925 in Rome's Largo di Torre Argentina. In mainland Greece and the Peloponnese, only a few places are known to have had a formal temple and cult of Ares.
The area was heavily occupied after the arsenal's destruction. Over the following centuries, the structure was slowly spoliated for other buildings, [28] such as the Temple of Ares in the Agora. [29] [30] Remains of later houses, wells, and cisterns from the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman periods overlie the remains of the arsenal. [31]
Athena's statue, together with those of Ares, Aphrodite Areia, and Enyo, stood in the temple of Ares at Athens. [1] There was also a colossal acrolithic statue of her, at a temple at Plataea , built with the spoils given to that city by the Athenians after the Battle of Marathon . [ 2 ]
The total destruction of Acharnae and the abandonment of the temple of Ares, a sanctuary of great importance in the deme, led to the warlike depiction of its citizens. Notably, Aristophanes depicted the Acharnians in his work Lysistrata as violent raiders. According to Thucydides the deme offered an army of 3,000 hoplites, 1/10 of the total ...