Roman Forum of Athens (Roman Agora)
Ancient Roman marketplace with a marble clock tower carved with wind gods and a colonnaded gate.
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This guide to the Roman Forum of Athens traces a promise Julius Caesar made in 51 BCE to fund a new marketplace, a pledge he never lived to see through before his assassination. It follows how his heir Augustus paid the debt decades later, building the square you stand in and the Gate of Athena Archegetis that still bears both their names. From there it turns to something carved into the gate's stone almost two centuries after that, placed where every merchant walking through would see it.
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