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Title: A smaller history of Greece, from the earliest times to the Roman conquest
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893
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Publisher: London, Walton and Maberly
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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he base of thesehills, stood the Agora (or market-place). In a direction fromnorth-west to south-east a street called the Ceramicus ran diagon-ally through the Agora, entering it through the valley betweenthe Pnyx and the Areopagus. The street was named after a dis-trict of the city, which was divided into two parts, the Inner andOuter Ceramicus. The former lay within the city walls, andincluded the Agora. The Outer Ceramicus, which formed a hand-some suburb on the north-west of the city, was the burial-place ofall persons honoured with a public funeral. Through it ran theroad to the gymnasium and gardens of the Academy, which weresituated about a mile from the walls. The Academy was the placewhere Plato and his disciples taught. On each side of this roadwere monuments to illustrious Athenians, especially those who hadfallen in battle. East of the city, and outside the walls, was the Lyceum, a gym-nasium dedicated to Apollo Lyceus, and celebrated as the place inwhich Aristotle taught.
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