Ekklesiasterion at Poseidonia/Paestum

religious building · 550 BC – 330 BC

The seat of the popular assembly of Poseidonia/Paestum, the Ekklesiasterion was built ca. 480-470 B.C. and could accommodate, at most, 1,700 persons. The structure retained its function after the Lucanian conquest but was abandoned, buried, and built over after the Roman conquest.

Coordinates

40.42319, 15.00623

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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