文档介绍：Excavations in the Athenian Agora
Picture Book No. 7
Prepared by Alison Frantz
Produced by The Meriden pany
Meriden, Connecticut
Cover Design: From an Altar Screen of the
11th or 12th century. s 1616
Title Page: From the Handle of a Sgraffito Dish,
11th century. P 22156
EXCAVATIONS OF THE ATHENIAN AGORA PICTURE BOOKS
1. Pots and Panr afClassical Athens (5th Printing, 1974)
2. The Stoa afAttalos II in Athens (4th Printing, 1972)
3. Miniature Sculpturefrom the Athenian Agora (4th Printing, 1974)
4. The Athenian Citizen (6th Printing, 1974)
5. Ancient Portraitrfrom the Athenian Agora (3rd Printing, 1972)
6. Amphoras and the Ancient Wine Trade (4th Printing, 1972)
7. The Middle Ages in the Athenian Agora (3rd Printing, 1974)
8. Garden Lore $Ancient Athens (2nd Printing, 1971)
9. Lampsfrom the Athenian Agora (2nd Printing, 1969)
10. Inscriptionsfrom the Athenian Agora (2nd Printing, 1967)
11. Waterworks in the Athenian Agora (2nd Printing, 1972)
12. An Ancient Shopping Center: The Athenian Agora (2nd Printing, 1972)
13. Early Burialsfrom the Agora Cemeteries (1973)
14. ******@ti in the Athenian Agora (1974)
These booklets are obtainable from
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
c/o Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, .
Price: $ each postpaid, except No. 8, price, $.
THE
MIDDLE AGES
IN THE
ATHENIAN AGORA
AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES
AT ATHENS
PRINCETON * NEW JERSEY
1961
I. Late Roman Wall, the Acropolis in the Background.
Classical civilization in the Athenian Agora came to an abrupt end in the
year 267 . when the Herulians, a tribe of barbarians from the northeast,
essfully attacked Athens and withdrew, leaving the lower city a mass of
smouldering ruins. In the Agora only the temple of Hephaistos escaped de-
struction; the useless remains of the other buildings were gathered as ready
material for a new fo