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Prison (Athens)

Greece / Attiki / Athens
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The true location of the Athenian prison.
It contains 8 square rooms which could have been cells, 4 rooms for guards, a courtyard, and only one entrance. See plan.

There are provisions for bathing. Imprisonment was not a common sentence in Athens (fines, exile or death were preferred) but it was here that Socrates was held in 399 BC pending execution. A large number of small medicine bottles which could have contained have been found, and also a small statuette of Socrates.
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Coordinates:   37°58'26"N   23°43'15"E

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  • grecodan (guest)
    The photograph shows the "cell" identified as the most likely place where Socrates was held. To the right is the outer room with its entrance into the outside corridor, and to the left is the "bathing" chamber, where Socrates would have died.
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