Athens, New Bouleuterion (Building)
Theater-like building; on western side of Agora, just west of the Old Bouleuterion.
- ID:
- aa_57
- Type:
- Building
- Date:
- -415 — -406
- Period:
- Classical
- Context:
- Athens
- Region:
- Attica
- Dimensions:
-
16 m x 22 m.
- Type:
- Bouleuterion
Plan
A theater with 12 rows of seats, seating capacity of greater than 500.
History
Housed the Athenian Council (the Boule). The original seats of the New Bouleuterion were probably of wood. The interior has been difficult to reconstruct. Consequently, there are differing views on the direction that the seats faced. Travlos reconstructs them as facing east while Dinsmoor's drawings in Camp show a New Bouleuterion with seats facing south. Camp uses two versions of the actual seating configuration in his book, both drawn by Dinsmoor, one in 1983/84 and one in 1985, the [...]
