AGORA MUSEUM

In the museum's exterior gallery you can admire a statue of Apollo as well as statues of women in armour, embodiment of Iliad and Odyssey.

Windows 1 to 3 present objects from the Neolithic age and bronze age, as well as mycéniennes pottery.

The showcase 4 shows offerings found in mycenaean tombs.

By entering the museum, objects discovered in mycéniennes tombs (showcase 5), including an admirable little pyxide in ivory whose decor represents griffins attacking biches. Also the schematic of a mycenaean tomb and gold ornaments designed to be sewn on mortuary clothing.

In the storefront 9, the burial urn of a warrior beside the tomb of a girl.

In the 12 storefront, cooking tests that determined the ideal cooking for the pottery.

In the showcase 13, a funeral pythos (huge jar) still containing the remains of a child.

The showcase 20 transports us to the classical age and evokes the life of Socrates on the Agora. The most impressive of these is the collection of small vials that had to contain the hemlock that was being drunk to death prisoners. Also a statuette presenting the face of the famous philosopher.

The 27 showcase exhibits pieces of court at the time: the bronze ballot papers; full chips meant that the accused was executed while the hollow stems meant that they were being condemned. See also, the only clepsydra arrived to us. They were used to limit the time of the pleadings.

In the storefront 23 is a mould used for performances of Apollo.

The 24 wall display presents a superb spartan shield taken by the Greeks during a fight. Also notice the child's breakthrough chair of the storefront 35. Also try to understand the operation of the machine to allocate public charges placed on the storefront 28.

The showcase 29 presents a very nice vase as an athlete.

In the showcase 34 is exposed a shield taken by the Greeks to the Persians during the battle of Pylos.

The 38 showcase presents a large number of shards that captures names of the city's citizens. These shards were used at ostracism assemblies (ostraca means "ceramic" in Greek) which decided to refer the town's citizens to: It reads the names of Themistocles, Callixénos and Aristide the Righteous, who were exiled back to the same time between 417 and 487.

In the 44 storefront, you can finally admire the beautiful terracotta figures, especially those representing theatre characters. The busts exhibited later all date from Roman times, and ceramics from Roman and Byzantine eras. Among them are the very beautiful young satire and the fragment of soil in mosaic exposed on the wall of the bottom of the room.