Poros Building
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Chris de Lisle
Creators: Chris de Lisle
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Brady Kiesling
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Mar 16, 2024 08:03 PM
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History
A narrow structure southwest of the Agora of Athens, built in the mid-5th century BC. Some modern scholars identify it as the Athenian prison where Sokrates and others were held and executed, but it was probably a workshop for marble workers.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/585794923
37.973842, 23.721168
- Representative Locations:
- Topostext Location: Poros Building/State Prison (AD 2000 - AD 2099)
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- Uncertain: δεσμωτήριον (desmōtḗrion: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - 330 BC)
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- Poros Building (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- State Prison (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Poros Building located at Athenae (550 BC - 330 BC)
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building
Pleiades
Chris de Lisle, Jeffrey Becker, and Brady Kiesling, 'Poros Building: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/585794923> [accessed: 02 May 2024]
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