Tower of the Winds The Roman Agora |Myth | Athens
Roman agora, is a rare combination of both attitudes. The style is Roman but the methods of construction and its architectural parts come from the classical ancient Greek tradition. Roman Agora is quite close to ancient Greek Agora, only few hundred meters to the east. The place's name was Eretria and it was used already as an open market place, even before Romans.
Around 100 A.D., a comfortably wide street linked Agora with the Roman Agora, signifying their ultimate connection. At that time, the Greek Agora was mostly a place for meeting people, light-shopping and hearing philosophical lectures. Roman Agora was the real market of the city of Athens. Roman Agora is a rectangular courtyard, full of shops and store rooms. It's building started around 11 B.C by a direct order of Caesar and it was completed few years later by his successor Augustus. This is why the Roman Agora's full name is 'Roman Agora of Caesar and Augustus'.
The Tower of the Winds (Athens)
Thought of as the world's first weather station, the Tower of the Winds has opened its doors to visitors for the first time in two hundred years. Have a look inside!
Tower Of The Winds – Presentation – Athens – Audio Guide – MyWoWo Travel App
Hi, my name’s Rick, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to welcome you to one of the Wonders of the World: the Tower of the Winds, the most curious building in Athens.
The Tower of the Winds, also known as Horologion, is a peculiar construction from Roman times, near the Agora, the central square of Athens, built near the historical Agora from the Greek age.
This octagonal tower once contained an ingenious water clock, presumably constructed by Andronicus of Cyrrhus, a Syrian architect, around 50 BC, when Athens had been under Roman rule for some time.
The original, pyramid-shaped roof of the tower was topped with a weathervane in the form of Triton, which indicated the direction of the winds. The eight sculptures below represent the eight main winds bearing symbolic gifts related to the seasons they are associated with.
If you look carefully, on one side you’ll see the remains of the base of a cylindrical tower which once reached up to the top. This contained the water delivered by the aqueduct from the Klepsidra Spring on the Acropolis whose pressure operated the mechanism of the water clock inside...
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113. Roman Architecture. The Roman Agora and the Tower of the Winds
Roman Architecture. The Roman Agora and the Tower of the Winds
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Roman Forum & Tower of the Winds (Athens)
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The Tower of the Winds, also called horologion (timepiece), is an octagonal Pentelic marble clocktower on the agora in Athens. The structure features a combination of sundials, a water clock, and a wind vane.Built by Andronicus of Cyrrhus around 50 BC (Greek:Ανδρόνικος Κυρρήστου) or Andronicus Cyrrhestes,son of Hermias, was a Greek astronomer who flourished about 100 BC.
The 12-metre-tall structure has a diameter of about 8 metres and was topped in antiquity by a weathervane -like Triton that indicated the wind direction. Below the frieze (Zoforos) depicting the eight wind deities # Boreas (N), Kaikias (NE), Eurus (E), Apeliotes (SE), Notus (S), Livas (SW), Zephyrus (W), and Skiron (NW) — there are eight sundials. In its interior, there was a water clock (or clepsydra), driven by water coming down from the Acropolis. Recent research has shown that the considerable height of the tower was motivated by the intention to place the sundials and the wind-vane at a visible height on the Agora, making it effectively an early example of a clocktower. According to the testimony of Vitruvius and Varro, Andronicus of Cyrrhus designed the structure. The tower's columns bore capitals of a design now known as Tower of the Winds Corinthian, although they lack the volutes ordinarily found in Corinthian capitals.
In early Christian times, the building was used as the bell-tower of a Byzantine Church. Under Ottoman rule it became a tekke and was used by whirling dervishes. At that time it was buried up to half its height, and traces of this can be observed in the interior, where Turkish inscriptions may be found on the walls. It was fully excavated in the 19th century by the Archaeological Society of Athens.
Με το όνομα Αέρηδες καθιερώθηκε να λέγεται το αρχαίο μνημείο - κτίριο που βρίσκεται στους βόρειους πρόποδες της Ακρόπολης Αθηνών, στο χώρο της Ρωμαϊκής Αγοράς στην Πλάκα. Το μνημείο αυτό του οποίου το επίσημο όνομα είναι Ωρολόγιο του Κυρρήστου, θεωρείται πως το ανήγειρε ο Ανδρόνικος ο Κύρρηστος εξ ου και το όνομα. Πρόκειται για οκταγωνικό μαρμάρινο κτίριο, χωρίς κίονες, όπου στις ισάριθμες μετώπες του φέρονται ανάγλυφοι οι οκτώ κύριοι άνεμοι, εξ ου και αέρηδες. Φέρει δύο θύρες, μία προς Βορρά και μία προς Δυσμάς.
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The Ancient Agora timelapse takes you back to the center of political and public life in Athens.
The agora was the center of political and public life in Athens. It was a large open area surrounded by buildings of various functions. The agora was utilized for commerce, political, religious and military activity. Meetings were held four times per month to enact legislation, to hear embassies, and deal with defense of the city-state. In addition, some public forums to discuss ostracism were held in the agora. The law courts were located there, and anyone who happened to be in the agora when a case was being heard would probably have been able to view the spectacle, though only those adult male citizens appointed by lot would have been able to serve as jurors. The agora was further the location of a temporary theater and of burial sites
The Roman Forum was created in 51 B.C. in order for the old agora to be moved here and until the 19th Century it was the city's commercial and administrative center. On location you can see another important sight, the Tower of Winds, an octagonal clocktower made from Pentelic marble that was used to track time. It is a sundial, a water clock and a wind vane. On top you can see the eight wind deities Boreas (N), Kaikias (NE), Eurus (SE), Apeliotes (E), Notus (S), Livas (SW), Zephyrus (W), and Skiron (NW).
Location: Roman Forum and Tower of Winds, Monastiraki Metro Station, Athens, Greece
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The tower of the winds was likely built in the 2nd century AD by a macedonian astronomer. Its 8 sides align with the four cardinal directions and each side carries a corresponding relief. It served many functions over the years, including a water clock (with the water flowing from the acropolis), a Byzantine church, and, at one time, a tekke (Sufi shrine).
(source: O'neill, Zora: Pocket Athens., Lonely Planet 2019)
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TOWER OF THE WINDS
The Tower of the Winds is an octagonal Pentelic marble clocktower in the Roman Agora in Athens that functioned as a horologion or timepiece. The structure features a combination of sundials, a water clock, and a wind vane.[1] It was supposedly built by Andronicus of Cyrrhus around 50 BC, but according to other sources, might have been constructed in the 2nd century BC before the rest of the forum.