athens-agora-above-bouleuterion-beside-hephaisteion-(was once called the thesion) -- from the place where this diagram is looking:

athens-agora-near-apollo-temple-with-hephaisteion-(was once called the thesion)-on-hill

Hotels: It's lucky that most of what one wants to do in Athens is centered around a specific area of town in the vicinity of the Acropolis, because it's not a particularly user-friendly town when it comes to getting around. Beware the price of taxi rides. Our first hotel, chosen from Lonely Planet, was a bust: cramped and uncomfortable, cold -- a definite downer. We moved after the first night and were much happier. The difference in the views, as seen in the photos, tells half the story, perhaps, though the rooms themselves were different as night and day, as well. We were also much closer to the heart of where we wanted to be, each day, in our second hotel, which was nice.

athens-first-hotel-the-cecil

athens-hotel-roofdeck-herodian

The Roman Agora isn't nearly as impressive as the Ancient Greek Agora, but it was interesting nonetheless, and it was one of the first places we visited in Athens, because we stumbled across it on our first evening in the city.

athens-roman-agora

athens-agora	athens-agora-carving	athens-agora-hephaisteion	athens-agora-hephaisteion_2
athens-agora-hephaisteion_3	athens-agora-hephaisteion_4	athens-agora-museum-ballots-display	athens-agora-museum-display-about-simon-the-cobbler-and-socrates
athens-agora-museum-ostraka-display	athens-agora-nathan_dannette_statue_of_hadrian	athens-agora-with-acropolis	athens-cecil-hotel
athens-herodian-hotel-view	athens-herodion-hotel-view-at-night	athens-kerameikos-old-city-wall	athens-kerameikos-tombstone
athens-kerameikos-with-arched-entrace-to-city-visible	athens-odeon-of-herod-atticus	athens-outside-propilea-not-360-panorama	athens-roman-agora-dannette-between-byzantine-and-arabic-relics
athens-roman-agora-tower-of-winds	athens-roman-agora-tower-of-winds_2	athens-roman-agora1