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Modern Description: Late in the 1st century B.C. the Athenians were given money for a new marketplace by Caesar and Augustus, and the northern half of the old Agora square was filled with two new structures, the Odeion of Agrippa and the Temple of Ares. A large concert hall or odeion was given to the Athenians by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, the son-in-law and general of Augustus, in the years around 15 B.C. It was a huge two-storeyed structure that must have dominated the square. The auditorium, with its raised stage and marble-paved orchestra, seated about 1,000 spectators. It was surrounded on three sides by a cryptoporticus (subterranean colonnaded hall) at the lower level, with stoas above. The exterior of the building was elaborated with Corinthian pilasters. Entry to the Odeion was either from the upper level of the Middle Stoa on the south or through a modest porch at ground level on the north.
[Judith Binder: Agrippa: M. Vipsanius Agrippa: Odeion of Agrippa, constructed before 12 B.C., destroyed by fire and rebuilt as a lecture hall ca. 150 A.D: Thompson, H. A. 1950, 31-141, figs. 1-21, pls. 16-20; Travlos, J. 1971, 365-371, figs. 34 no. 65, 469-491; Agora_Guide 1990, 28, 118 ff., 196 f., figs. 7, 19, 70-75]
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odeon_of_Agrippa
Wikidata ID: Q745797
Trismegistos Geo: 364

Info: Agora Excavations

Agora Excavation website agathe.gr

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