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Temple of Ares
Ruins · Greece
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 37.976, 23.723
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: temple in the ancient agora of Athens
History
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.