You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Greek. Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Greek article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 355 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Greek Wikipedia article at [[:el:Αγλαύρειο]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|el|Αγλαύρειο}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

The Aglaureion ( Greek: Αγλαύρειο), or the Sanctuary of Aglauros, was an ancient sanctuary located in the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. It was dedicated to Aglauros, a Greek mythological figure who was the daughter of King Cecrops and the sister of Erysichthon, Pandrosus, and Herse. The sanctuary was believed to be the site where Aglauros had sacrificed herself to protect the city from invasion. ^[1]

Discovery

In 1980, during excavations of the Peripatos, archaeologists found on the eastern slope of the Acropolis a honorary stele for Aglauros, dating to the 3rd century BC. It is believed the stele once stood as part of the peribolos of the Aglaureion. The stele is now held by the Acropolis Museum (inventory number Ακρ. 13372). ^{[1] [2]} The site had been incorrectly ascribed to other sanctuaries by archaeologists before. ^[3]

See also

• Arrhephoria
• Plynteria

References

External links

• http://www.stoa.org/athens/sites/eastslope.html

37°58′18″N 23°43′43″E / 37.9717°N 23.7286°E / 37.9717; 23.7286

This article about a building or structure in Athens is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

This Ancient Greece related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e