Estimated floor plan of the original Temple of Ares with adjacent altar
The Temple of Ares was a Doric hexastyle peripteral temple dedicated to Ares, located in the northern part of the Ancient Agora of Athens. Fragments from the temple found throughout the Agora enable a full, if tentative, reconstruction of the temple's appearance and sculptural programme. The temple had a large altar to the east and was surrounded by statues. A terrace to the north looked down on the Panathenaic Way. The northwest corner of the temple overlays one of the best-preserved Mycenaean tombs in the Agora, which was in use from ca. 1450-1000 BC.
The temple was originally located at Pallene (modern Gerakas), where it was dedicated to Athena Pallenis and - probably - Apollo. It is one of four temples by the "Theseum architect" and was probably built around 440-436 or 430-425 BC. It is the largest of several "itinerant temples," which were relocated to the Athenian Agora in the age of Augustus. The roof of the temple was spoliated in the second half of the second century AD to build the post-Herulian fortification wall. The sculptures were systematically defaced by Christians in the fifth century AD and the remains of the structure were demolished in the sixth century AD.
The foundations in the Agora were excavated in 1937, with some further work in 1951, after which they were reburied for their protection. Architectural fragments and sculpture have been found scattered throughout the Agora in secondary use. The original foundations remain in situ at Pallene, where they were excavated between 1994 and 1997.
The TempleofAres was a Doric hexastyle peripteral temple dedicated to Ares, located in the northern part of the Ancient Agora of Athens. Fragments from...
symbols. Ares (/ˈɛəriːz/; Ancient Greek: Ἄρης, Árēs [árɛːs]) is the Greek god of war and courage. He is one of the Twelve Olympians, and the son of Zeus and...
to Pausanias (I, 8, 4), made a statue ofAres that was erected on the Athenian agora. However, the templeofAres to which he refers had only been moved...
is generally a son ofAres by Enyo[citation needed] and also a byname ofAres the god of war. Though Enyalius as a by-name ofAres is the most accepted...
Sculpture and Acroteria from the Hephaisteion and TempleofAres in the Agora at Athens". American Journal of Archaeology. 61 (2): 161–165. doi:10.2307/500354...
agora. Some of these included: An Altar of Zeus Agoraios was added just to the east of the Monument to the Eponymous Heroes. The TempleofAres, dedicated...
Areia, and Enyo, stood in the templeofAres at Athens. There was also a colossal acrolithic statue of her, at a temple at Plataea, built with the spoils...
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linking the temple with a statue of Athena found nearby (Agora inv. S 654), but this is now associated with the TempleofAres. The foundations in the Agora...
on the Athenian agora, which some have related to the Ares Borghese. However, the templeofAres to which he refers had only been moved from Acharnes and...
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Makhai or the chained god's heartbeat, from a chained Ares statue by defeating Mimas at the templeofAres in Sparta. While sailing through the Aegean Sea,...
Pseudo-Plutarch, Vitae decem oratorum (Lives of the Ten Orators) 8, 11. Pausanias, 1.8.4 locates the statue near the TempleofAres. Long, p. 162. Long, pp. 72 (T 16...
the northwest corner of the Agora. The capitals are similar to those of the Templeof Athena at Sounion (later the Southeast Temple), but with a reduced...
The Ludovisi Ares is an Antonine Roman marble sculpture ofAres, a fine 2nd-century copy of a late 4th-century BCE Greek original, associated with Scopas...
the surname of Homoloïus from Homoloïs, a priestess of Enyo. A statue of Enyo, made by the sons of Praxiteles, stood in the templeofAres at Athens. Enyo...
destruction of Acharnae and the abandonment of the templeofAres, a sanctuary of great importance in the deme, led to the warlike depiction of its citizens...
includes in his description of the templeofAres Aphenius between the cities of Tegea and Pallantium. After the death of Eurystheus, Hyllus led the Heracleidae...
whose statue of Athena in the temple of Ares, at Athens, is mentioned by Pausanias. Pseudo-Scymnus, Circuit of the Earth 587 ff. Plutarch, Quaestiones...
connecting Athens with the rest of Greece. The gate was of major ceremonial significance as the starting point of the procession of the Great Panathenaea, and...
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