Agora in the Cadmeia of Thebes

High above the streets of modern Thiva lies the Cadmeia, the fortified acropolis of ancient Thebes, named for Cadmus, the city's legendary founder. Within its walls, the agora served as the citadel's central public space, a gathering place layered across the archaic, classical, Hellenistic, Roman, late antique, and later periods. Settlement here reaches back to at least the early Bronze Age, with reliable evidence of continuous habitation beginning in the late Mycenaean period. Partially preserved today, the site holds myth and archaeology in a single stratified place, where legend and the long arc of civic life meet.

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