Ancient Greek divine epithet

Athena Polias

Explore sacred places with reviewed veneration relationships to Athena Polias. This sacred focus is recorded in relation to Athena.

Sacred focus

Hellenistic Greek

Assos

Çanakkale, Turkey

A volcanic hilltop city above the Aegean, Assos holds the only Archaic Doric temple in Anatolia and the site of Aristotle's philosophical academy....

Sacred focus

Hellenistic Greek

Temple of Athena at Assos

Çanakkale, Turkey

Perched at 235 metres above the Aegean Sea on the acropolis of Assos, the Temple of Athena has occupied this promontory since approximately 540 BC — the sole surviving...