Stoa of Eumenes ΙΙ
Long two-story colonnade of Doric columns, once a sheltered walkway beside an ancient theater.
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This guide to the Stoa of Eumenes II in Athens opens around 160 BCE, when Eumenes the Second, the foreign king of Pergamon, sent his engineers to build Athens a covered walkway it never asked for, more than one hundred sixty meters long with sixty-four Doric columns outside and thirty-two more within, all cut from imported island marble. You'll hear how theatergoers from the neighboring Theater of Dionysus used it for shelter between acts, ducking past a small fountain on the path circling up toward the Acropolis. Then the guide turns to the third century, when Athens came under sudden threat and needed stone in a hurry.
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