Choragic Monument of Nikias

37°58′13″N 23°43′37″E / 37.97028°N 23.72694°E / 37.97028; 23.72694

Reconstruction of the Choragic Monument of Nikias (on the right) as it might have appeared circa 160 BCE.

The Choragic Monument of Nikias is a memorial building built on the Acropolis of Athens in 320–319 BCE to commemorate the choregos Nikias, son of Nikodemos.[1] It was situated between the Theatre of Dionysos and the Stoa of Eumenes where its foundations remain along with some fragmentary elements of the structure. It was built in the form of a substantial hexastyle Doric temple with a square cella and might have been surmounted with the prize tripod of the Dionysia.[2] The monument was dismantled at some point in late antiquity and the masonry reused in the Beulé Gate.

  1. ^ Travlos p. 370
  2. ^ Dinsmoor rejects the argument that the tripod was on the acroterion of the building as this is too small to accommodate it, and must therefore have been inside the cella. Dinsmoor 1910, p. 470.