Buildings and Structures of The Classical Agora
- Peristyle Court
- Mint
- Enneakrounos
- South Stoa I and South Stoa II
- Heliaia
- Strategeion
- Colonos Agoraios
- Tholos
- Agora stone
- Monument of the Eponymous Heroes
- Metroon (Old Bouleuterion)
- New Bouleuterion
- Temple of Hephaestus (Hephaestion)
- Temple of Apollo Patroos
- Stoa of Zeus
- Altar of the Twelve Gods
- Stoa Basileios (Royal stoa)
- Temple of Aphrodite Urania
- Stoa of Hermes
- Stoa Poikile
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