Monument Of Agonothetes

The emblem of Apollonia is the Roman monument of Agonothetes, which was built in the second century and serves as its bouleuterion.

The City Council meeting place in ancient Greece was known as the "Bouleuterion." In Apollonia, this is near the Agora in the city center (the central meeting and marketplace of a city). It was constructed during the Roman period in the final part of the second century BC.

The monument of Agonothetes was shaped like a semicircle and used as a meeting place for the city council - the Bule. The front of the structure was uniquely ornamented, with six pillars capped with Corinthian capitals. According to an inscription from the middle of the second century AD, the edifice was built by high-ranking officers of the city as a memorial to honor the loss of their soldier brother.

Location: Fier County, Albania