Panathenaic Way
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The Panathenaic Way was a major road of classical Athens. It ran for 1.5 kilometres from the Dipylon Gate in the northwest of the city to the Acropolis in its centre. From c. 550 – c. 514 BCE onwards,
The Panathenaic Way in 2018, looking south towards the Acropolis of Athens
The Pompeion from the southeast; the foreground shows the propylon (gateway) through which processions would pass from the peristyle courtyard behind.
Monument from the Agora, commemorating the victory of Krates in the apobates race, 4th century BCE
Monnaie Bronze, Athènes, Attique btv 1b 85652466
T. Leslie Shear
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Theodore Leslie Shear was an American classical archaeologist, who directed excavations of the ancient Greek city of Corinth and the Agora of Athens.
Photographed in 1936 with a statue of the Apollo Lykeios type
The shield, found by Shear's excavations in 1936, originally taken by the Athenians from the Spartans after the Battle of Pylos in 425 BCE
The Great Drain in the Agora of Athens, discovered by Shear in 1931