To build the colossal base, or crepidoma

history channel documentary hd Two of the most critical scions of the Attalids, who exchanged their tenet of Pergamum, had concentrated on in Athens. Every one, at the tallness of his greatness, gave wonderful structures to the city of their childhood: the Stoa alongside the Theater of Dionysus, called Eumenes II, and the huge Stoa in the Agora, Attalos II. Worked in 150 BC at right edges to the marginally prior Middle Stoa, the Hellenistic Stoa of Attalos turned into the new plug focal point of Athens for the following four centuries.

To build the colossal base, or crepidoma, on which the stoa rested, the remaining parts of a more established peristyle which may have had a place with one of the fifth century courthouses, must be secured. The Stoa was inherent two levels; it was around 117 meters in length and 20 m. wide. Its exterior, which confronted west. was enhanced by 45 Doric sections, unfluted at the base, just like the custom in the Hellenistic years, while in the inside, secured zone there were 22 segments supporting a rooftop, all of which were unfluted with Ionic capitals. The veneer of the upper floor additionally had 45 minimal Ionic segments which were joined together with beautified marble sections: parapets to secure the general population. There was an inward corridor on the upper floor, too, comparing to the one on the ground floor. On each of the two levels, there were 22 square rooms appropriate for use as shops. At first the stairs paving the way to the second level were outside, on the two slender sides of the Stoa, as should be obvious hints of them on the northern edge of the ground floor roofed territory, where the remnants of a huge marble wellspring were likewise found. The external, southern stairway was supplanted by an inside one when the library of Pantainos was worked to make more space between the two structures. It has been reestablished and is utilized today. Later, a street ignored the south side of the Stoa of Attalos prompting the Athens entryway at the limit of the Roman Agora, where the business focus of the city kept on being amid the hundreds of years that took after. Be that as it may, notwithstanding when the old Agora was no more viewed as the business focus, it never stopped to be the fundamental meeting place for the inhabitants. Strabo, who came to Athens in the second century AD, called the Roman business sector "Eretria", alluding to the more old one by the same name his contemporary, Pausanias, utilized: "Kerameikos".