Step Into History
Walk Athens in AD 130
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Step Into History · City walk
Hadrian's Athens, 130
This is Athens at the height of Roman patronage: Hadrian has finished the colossal Temple of Olympian Zeus and set his new manifest presence in stone across the city. The walk moves from the outer approach through the markets, philosophy groves and public streets to the Acropolis and a wide summit view, showing monuments, everyday trade and schools of philosophy under Roman peace.
34 scenes — 22 streets, squares and views, 12 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Athens as it stood in AD 130 (“History of Athens”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Coastal Approach from Peiraeus
- 2. Peiraic Gate
- 3. Dipylon Gate
- 4. Panathenaic Way
- 5. The Agora Market
- ↳ Covered Pottery Hall · interior
- 6. Stoa of Attalos
- ↳ Colonnaded Merchant Shops · interior
- 7. Roman Agora
- ↳ Imperial Baths Caldarium · interior
- 8. Tower of the Winds
- ↳ Octagonal Clock Chamber · interior
- 9. Hadrian's Library
- ↳ Library Peristyle Court · interior
- ↳ Library Reading Hall · interior
- 10. Arch of Hadrian
- ↳ Triumphal Vaulted Passage · interior
- 11. Approach to Olympieion
- 12. Temple of Olympian Zeus
- ↳ Cella and Column Forest · interior
- 13. Zappeion Plain
- 14. Panathenaic Stadium
- 15. Ilissos River Bank
- 16. Lyceum Grove
- ↳ Palaestra Cold Bath Room · interior
- 17. Academy Grove
- ↳ Covered Philosophers' Exedra · interior
- 18. Theatre of Dionysus
- ↳ Orchestra and Lower Cavea · interior
- 19. Areopagus Hill
- 20. Pnyx Assembly Hill
- 21. Propylaea Approach
- ↳ Propylaea Central Hall · interior
- 22. Mount Lycabettus View