The Southern Slope of the Acropolis was undoubtedly the most important religious center in antiquity, after the Holy Rock itself, and the main cultural core of Asteos.
Here the great sanctuaries of Dionysos Eleftherios and Asclepius were founded and the Theater of Dionysos was formed, the oldest of its kind in the Greek area, where the ancient Greek drama flourished. Over the centuries, other important buildings for the social and cultural life of the Athenians were added, such as the Conservatory of Pericles, the Stoa of Eumenes and much later, during the Roman period, the Conservatory of Herod of Atticus, the well-known Herodeion.
A point of reference in the religious life of the city was also the North Slope of the Acropolis, which was the area where the secondary representations of the Olympian gods were mainly worshiped, as evidenced by the existence of the Sacred Caves (Panos, Dios Olympia and Apollo Hypoakraios) and the Sanctuary of Venus and Eros. In it there were still the Mycenaean Fountain and the source of the Hourglass, which were of vital importance for the Acropolis, but also for the wider area.
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