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A headings i 1111 2 3 Athens, Attica and 4 5 the Megarid 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 11115 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46111 Figure 1 Map of Attica. iv The Megarid, Attic border forts and Perachora 1111 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 1115 11116 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46111 A headings v 1111 Athens, Attica and 2 3 the Megarid 4 5 6 7 An archaeological guide 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 11115 16 17 18 Hans Rupprecht Goette 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 U T LE O D 41 R G 42 E 43 • • 44 Taylor&Francis Group 45 London and New York 46111 vi The Megarid, Attic border forts and Perachora 1111 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 First edition (German language) published 11 1993 by Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne, Germany 12 © 1993 by Böhlau-Verlag 13 Revised and updated English edition published 2001 by Routledge 14 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE 1115 11116 Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 17 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 18 19 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group 20 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002. 21 22 © 2001 Hans Rupprecht Goette 23 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or 24 reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, 25 or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including 26 photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or 27 retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. 28 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data 29 A catalogue record for this book is available from the 30 British Library. 31 32 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Goette, Hans Rupprecht. 33 [Athens, Attika, Megaris. English] 34 Athens, Attica, and the Megarid: an archaeological guide/ 35 Hans Rupprecht Goette. 36 p. cm. 37 Includes bibliographical references and index. 38 1. Athens (Greece)—Antiquities—Guidebooks. 2. Attika 39 (Greece)—Antiquities—Guidebooks. 3. Megara (Greece)— 40 Antiquities—Guidebooks. I. Title. 41 DF275.G5413 2001 42 914.95′120493—dc21 00-062811 43 44 ISBN 0–415–24370–X (Print Edition) ISBN 0-203-45881-8 Master e-book ISBN 45 46111 ISBN 0-203-46062-6 (Adobe eReader Format) A headings vii 1111 2 3 Contents 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 11115 Illustrations ix 16 Foreword xv 17 Information for the reader xvi 18 1 Athens and Piraeus 1 19 1 Athens: a historical overview 1 20 2 The Acropolis 5 21 3 The slopes of the Acropolis and the Peripatos 47 22 4 The Areopagos, the Hill of the Nymphs, the Mouseion Hill 23 with the Pnyx, the Philopappos Monument and the 24 Kerameikos 55 25 5 The Greek Agora, the Roman Market, the Library of Hadrian 26 and Monastiraki 69 27 6 Plaka, Olympieion, Ilissos Area, the First Cemetery and the 28 Stadium of Herodes Atticus 93 29 7 The National Garden, main boulevards, National Museum, 30 Lykabettos, Tourkovounia and the Academy at Kolonos 31 Hippios 106 32 8 Piraeus and Daphni 140 33 9 Kaisariani and the monasteries and quarries on Hymettos 151 34 35 2 Attica I: From Athens to Sounion and in 36 the Mesogeia 185 37 1 Glyphada, Voula, Vouliagmeni, Vari and the south-west 38 Attic coastal sites 185 39 2 From Anavyssos to Sounion 199 40 3 Lavrion, Thorikos, Porto Raphti and Brauron 209 41 4 The Mesogeia: Loutsa, Raphina, Spata, Markopoulo, 42 Koropi and Paiania 226 43 44 45 46111 viii Contents 1111 3 Attica II: The plain of Marathon and north-east 2 Attica 238 3 1 The plain of Marathon and the Battle of Marathon 490 BC 238 4 2 The Marathon Area 240 5 3 Rhamnous 245 6 4 The Amphiareion of Oropos and Avlona 249 7 8 4 Attica III: Pentelikon, Parnes and the Thriasian 9 plain 256 10 1 Pentelikon and Dionysos 256 11 2 Parnes with Phyle and Menidi 265 12 3 Eleusis 270 13 4 The Thriasian plain 280 14 1115 5 The Megarid, the Attic border forts and 11116 Perachora 307 17 1 Megara 307 18 2 Alepochori and Vathichoria in the Megarian hinterland 312 19 3 The Attic border forts: Aigosthenai, Eleutherai and Oinoe 314 20 4 The Isthmus of Corinth and the Diolkos 322 21 5 Perachora 323 22 23 6 The islands of the Saronic Gulf: Salamis, 24 Aigina and Poros 327 25 1 Salamis 327 26 2 Aigina 331 27 3 Poros 348 28 29 7 Appendices 353 30 1 The geography of Attica 353 31 2 The modern structure: administration and economy 354 32 3 The flora 355 33 4 The fauna 357 34 5 Some basic concepts of ancient architecture: Glossary 359 35 6 Observations on Byzantine church building in Greece 363 36 (a) The Early Christian period (306–527) 363 37 (b) The Early Byzantine period (527–843) 365 38 (c) The Middle Byzantine period (843–1204) 366 39 (d) The Late Byzantine period (1204–1460) 370 40 (e) The post-Byzantine period (1460–1830) 371 41 7 List of the most important monuments in chronological 42 order 372 43 44 Index of sites and monuments 376 45 Bibliography 385 46111 Contents ix 1111 2 3 Illustrations 4 5 6 7 8 All illustrations are copyright of the author unless otherwise indicated 9 10 11 12 13 14 11115 Figures 16 17 1 Map of Attica ii 18 2 Map of the historical centre of Athens with the important 19 ancient monuments 4 3 The Acropolis from the south-west 6 20 4 Explosion on the Acropolis, 27 September, 1687: view from 21 the north-east 7 22 5 The Acropolis of Athens shortly before 480 BC 8 23 6 The Acropolis of Athens and the slopes, c. AD 180 10 24 7 Athens, Acropolis: Propylaea from the south, c. 1820 16 25 8 Athens, Acropolis: Propylaea 18 26 9 Athens, Acropolis: Temple of Athena Nike with altar 22 27 10 Athens, Acropolis: Erechtheion 26 28 11 The temples of Athena on the Acropolis of Athens 30 29 12 Athens, Acropolis: Old Parthenon and Parthenon 31 30 13 Methods of lifting architectural members during construction work 32 31 14 Athens, Acropolis: Parthenon, plan and distribution of 32 sculptural programme 33 33 15 Athens, Acropolis: Parthenon, the pedimental sculptures 37 34 16 Athens, Acropolis: the Parthenon, with the mosque and the 35 Turkish village 40 36 17 Athens, Acropolis: south slope with the choregic monument 37 of Thrasyllos 53 38 18 Athens, the ancient city and its hills 56 39 19 Athens, Kerameikos 60 40 20 Athens, Agora, c. 400 BC 72 41 21 Athens, Agora, c. AD 180 73 22 Athens, Hephaisteion, reconstructed plan and the church of 42 Ay. Georgios 74 43 23 Statue group of the Tyrannicides, Harmodios and Aristogeiton 82 44 24 Athens, Agora, Ay. Apostoloi 87 45 25 Athens, western gate of Roman Market (Gate of Athena 46111 Archegetis) 88

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