دانلود کتاب The two Agoras in ancient Athens, a new commentary on their history and development, topography and monuments

THE THESIS OF Oikonomides' book is that not
until after the Persian Wars was the Athenian
Agora established in the area east of the Colonus
Agoraeus, where the American excavations have
been concentrated. No attempt, however, is made
to disprove the evidence discovered and published
by the American excavators for civic
buildings predating 480 B.c.; the author merely
asserts (e.g.) that "no public building or shrine
in the excavated area has been found antedating
the early fifth century B.C." (p.viii), or that the
Athenians buried their dead here "as late as the
late sixth century B.C." (p.xiii). His chronological
treatment of boundary stones is also individual.
He remarks that "the boundary stones of the
Agora, as well as those from Kerameikos, and
many others found in Athens, are roughly dated
in the 'first half of the fifth century B.c.' A good
many of them can be dated more specifically
between 479-475 B.C., the years during which the
new city plan of Athens was approved by the
boule and put into motion by the placement of
these markers amidst the ruins of the old city
as well as out in the new fields which were to be
newly incorporated within the enlarged area
surrounded by the new city wall." The single
Agora boundary stone found in situ has been
securely dated by the strata in which it was
embedded to c. 500 B.C. and the letter-forms are
suitable to this dating; while the boundary stones
found in situ in the Kerameikos have been assigned
to the fourth century (cf. Judeich, Top.
von Athen2, p.167). No references are cited, nor
explanation given, how the author arrived at the
remarkably specific date of 479-475 B.C. so convenient
for his theory.