The Agora complex of Aspendus is situated on the acropolis of the town. It includes buildings of civil and commercial character. Two construction phases are evident in its formation; the Hellenistic and the Roman. The land-planning development of the Agora between these two historical periods is of peculiar interest. The buildings that comprise the town’s agora are two commercial Stoas, a Basilica, a Bouleuterion, a Nymphaeum and an Exedra.

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The Commercial (Tetragonos) Agora of Ephesus dates from the period the city was refounded by Augustus and succeeded the respective administrative Agora of Hellenistic Ephesus. It was near the harbour and served as the commercial centre of the city. It included a square court closed on all sides by colonnades, behind which laid shops and workshops. The best preserved gate was on the southern side and had been dedicated by two wealthy Imperial freedmen, Mazaeus and Mithradates, in 3 or 2 BC....

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The public agora of Ephesus was situated between the hills Panayir Dağ and Bülbül Dağ and formed the administrative center of the city. It was originally constructed during the Hellenistic period, but it was fundamentally remodelled during the reign of Augustus and acquired a Roman character. The northern side of the complex was the most important, where behind the three-aisled basilica, the prytaneum, the temple of Augustus and Artemis and the odeion-bouleuterion were located. The other sides...

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