of the Acropolis. The large odeon surviving today, the Odeon of Herodes Atticus was built in Roman times. Panathenaic Stadium, south of the Ilissos, in the district Agrai, where the athletic portion of the Panathenaic Games were held. The Argyrocopeum (mint) appears to have been in or adjoining the chapel (heroon) of a hero named Stephanephorus. Suburbs The Outer Kerameikos, northwest of the city, was the finest suburb of Athens; here were buried the Athenians who had fallen in war, and at the further end of it was the Academy, six stadia from the city. Cynosarges, east of the city, across the Ilissos, reached from the Diomea gate, a gymnasium sacred to Heracles, where the Cynic Antisthenes taught. Lyceum, east of the city, a gymnasium sacred to Apollo Lyceus, where Aristotle taught. Culture The period from the end of the Persian Wars to the Macedonian conquest marked the zenith of Athens as a center of literature, philosophy (see Greek philosophy) and the arts (see Greek theatre). Some of the most important figures of Western cultural and intellectual history lived in Athens during this period: the dramatists Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides and Sophocles, the philosophers Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates, the historians Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon, the poet Simonides and the sculptor Phidias. The leading statesman of this period was Pericles, who used the tribute paid by the members of the Delian League to build the Parthenon and other great monuments of classical Athens. The city became, in Pericles's words, an education for Hellas (usually quoted as "the school of Hellas [Greece].") See also Politics Archon basileus Episkopoi Eponymous archon Solonian Constitution Society Women in classical Athens Ancient Greek crafts Class Aristoi Banausos Ephebos Eupatridae Geomori Metic Seisachtheia Education Ephebic Oath Taxation Liturgy Trierarchy Athenian Army References 508 BC 6th-century BC establishments in Greece 322 BC 4th-century BC disestablishments in Greece Ancient Athens Greek city-states