Sanctuary of Aphrodite Ourania
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Chris de Lisle Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Chris de Lisle Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 15, 2025 10:36 PM
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History
A sanctuary of Aphrodite Ourania ("Heavenly") in Athens, on the Panathenaic Way as it entered the Athenian Agora. It consisted of an altar built around 500 BC and a temple built in the early first century AD. The Late Roman Stoa was built over the top of it in the fifth century AD.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/435244729
37.9763958493, 23.7226415143
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM Location: archaeological site (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- ToposText Location: Aphrodite Ourania altar (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Altar and sanctuary of Aphrodite Ourania (English, unspecified date range)
- ἱερὸν Ἀφροδίτης Οὐρανίας (hieròn Aphrodítēs Ouranías: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Sanctuary of Aphrodite Ourania located near Hephaisteion (30 BC - AD 300)
- Sanctuary of Aphrodite Ourania located near Kerameikos (30 BC - AD 300)
- Sanctuary of Aphrodite Ourania located north of Panathenaic Way (unspecified date range)
- Sanctuary of Aphrodite Ourania located near Royal Stoa (30 BC - AD 300)
- Stoa Poikile next place in route Sanctuary of Aphrodite Ourania (30 BC - AD 300)
shrine, archaeological site
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Pleiades
Chris de Lisle, Jeffrey Becker, Brady Kiesling, and Tom Elliott, 'Sanctuary of Aphrodite Ourania: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/435244729> [accessed: 06 December 2025]
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