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Modern Description: "One larger structure, the so-called Poros Building, has a long corridor flanked by square rooms, with a courtyard at the rear (Fig. 28). It has been suggested that this might be the State Prison (desmoterion), where Sokrates and others convicted of political crimes were executed. The date, location, and plan are all appropriate, though the building may equally well have served some commercial function. Agora Guide
[Judith Binder: Desmoterion: the state prison, also called oikema: Pl. Phd. 59 D; Agora_III, 149-150; [mistakenly] located in the Poros Building (Part II no. 308), Vanderpool, E. 1980, 17-31; [plausibly located] near or at the Theseion, S. N. Koumanoudes, “Perhaps → usually → certainly,” Horos 2 (1984) 71-79; Rhodes, P. J. 1981, 580]
Wikidata ID: Q20379066
Trismegistos Geo: 364"

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