This altar ("bômos" in Greek) in the center of the agora was dedicated to the twelve great gods of Greece : Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Hestia, Apollo, Artemis, Hephæstus, Athena, Ares, Aphrodite and Hermes. It was the point from which distances were reckoned.
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