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Panathenaiac Way and Stadium
By Amanda Torres
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Stadium, THEN

• Archon Lycurgus in 329 BC
• Wooden seats during classical times, later
  changed to marble
• Herodes Atticus in 140 AD
• Enlarged to seat 50,000
• Horseshoe Construction, track (204.07 meters long
  and 33.35 meters wide)
• Separating scales between tiers
• Portico with Doric columns at base of the
  sphendone
• Portico was placed in the stadium's facade.
• Illissos River bridge, enlarged with 3 arches

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Entrance
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Stadium at Delphi
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Stadium, NOW

• Now seats 60,000, 50 rows
• Averoff statue stands at the entrance to the
  stadium
• Now sits in downtown Athens, between Agra and
  Ardettos
• Illissos River, until 1950s

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History of the Stadium

• Athletic portion of the Panathenaiac Greater
  Festival
• Roman Arena, added the Northern semicircular
  wall.
• 1870, 1875, 1896 Olympic Games
• 1896, First Olympics of the Modern Era!
• 2004 Archery , Marathon finish
• Summer Olympic Medals of 2004 and 2008

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2004 Archery
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Excavations of the Stadium

• Excavated and refurbished by Zappas in 1870
• Herodes Atticus
• Refurbished in 1895 by George Averoff
• Pure Marble, Mount Penteli
• Bridge was excavated in 1958

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George Averoff
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Panathenaiac Way

• Starts at the Dipylon Gate, cuts through the
  Agora and leads to the Acropolis
• Through the Propylaea stopping at the Erechtheum
  and sometimes Parthenon

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Agora View
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History

• Started at the Dipylon gate, before dawn
• Sacrifices offered on the Areopagus, in front of
  the Athena Nike temple
• Citizens entered the Propylaea
• Passed Parthenon?Erectheum
• Yearly peplos for Athena Polias, wooden statue
• Parthenon
• Every four years, Athena Parthenos

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Bibliography

• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panathinaiko_Stadium
• http//depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classics/dunkle/
  athnlife/rligious.htm
• http//www.greece-athens.com/place.php?place_id35
  
• http//www.stadia.gr/panathinaiko/panathinaiko.htm
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• http//atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/religion/blg
  rk_athens-olympics.htm

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