Tholos of Athens
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Denitsa Dzhigova
Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Denitsa Dzhigova
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Mar 15, 2024 10:17 AM
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History
The so-called "Tholos" located on the west side of the Athenian Agora was a circular civic building that took the place of archaic-period buildings associated with the Peisistratid tyrants. The Classical tholos served as a civic dining hall for the prytany council.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/91288718
37.9748721965, 23.7219391934
- Representative Locations:
- Uncertain: OSM location of Θόλος (550 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Θόλος (Tholos: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - AD 300)
- Tholos of Athens (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- ἡ Σκιάς (hē Skiás: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 300)
- Tholos of Athens part of (analytical) Agora of Athens (unspecified date range)
- Tholos of Athens succeeds Prytanikon at Athens (unspecified date range)
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Jeffrey Becker, Denitsa Dzhigova, Brady Kiesling, and Chris de Lisle, 'Tholos of Athens: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/91288718> [accessed: 27 April 2024]
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