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Modern Description: The shrine of the Dioskouroi or Anakeion played an important role in Athenian military life. Its location should be somewhere below the cave of Aglauros at the E end of the Acropolis. A 2006 Hesperia piece by Geoffrey Schmalz proposes a site for it near the corner of Thespidos and Rangava in Plaka, Athens (http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/pdf/uploads/hesperia/25067975.pdf)
[Judith Binder: Anakeion: Anakeion, sanctuary of the Anakes (Dioskouroi), Akropolis northwest slope: the ancient sanctuary of the Dioskouroi described by Pausanias (1.18.1-2) after he saw the sanctuary of Theseus and before he saw the precinct of Aglauros; Agora_III, 61-65; conjectural [doubtable] location on the Akropolis North Slope, Travlos, J. 1971, 2,fig. 5 no. 12, fig. 722 P]
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anakeion
Wikidata ID: Q484363
Trismegistos Geo: 364

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