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Hadrian's Arch

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This marble gateway, built in AD 131 with Corinthian details, was intended both to honor the Hellenophile emperor Hadrian and to separate the ancient and imperial sections of Athens. On the side facing the Acropolis an inscription reads this is athens, the ancient city of theseus, but the side facing the Temple of Olympian Zeus proclaims this is the city of hadrian and not of theseus.

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