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Priene was an ancient Greek holy city and the home of an important temple of Athena.
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Cavea: The Place where the spectators sat

Ekklesiasterion: It was a small amphitheatre used for political meetings which was built with steps and is dating to the 4th century B.C. It connects to the two agora and identified as an ancient agora.
Palaestra: Sports ground
Parados: An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse.
Propylaeum: Enter of the temple
Proskene: Well preserved and consists of a colonnade supported with 12 Doric half columns.
Skene: A fitting room in theatre
Stoa: A portico with a colonnade
Stoae: Plural of stoa
The Seven Sages (of Greece) or Seven Wise Men was the title given by ancient Greek tradition to seven early 6th century B.C. Philosophers, statesmen and law-givers who were renowned in the following centuries for their wisdom. Thales of Miletus, Pittacus of Mytilene, Bias of Priene, Cleobulus of Lindus, Solon, Myson of Chen, Chilon of Sparta.
Temenos: A piece of area land cut off assigned as an official domain


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