t the peak of Agoraios Kolonos hill is the best preserved temple of antiquity, the Theseio. The Theseio or the Temple of Hephaestus, is a peripheral temple, the same as the Parthenon. It was built with pentelic marble. It has 13 columns on its long side and 6 on its narrow. The feats of Hercules and Theseus are engraved in relief on its metopes. The Theseio was built during the time of Pericles.
After 1821, it was the only closed and covered space usable as a museum, the first national archaeological museum of modern Greece. During the early years of Christianity the temple was converted into the church of Saint George. There was also a square building on the same hill known as the Skevothiki, a small sanctuary from the 2nd century BC, that was dedicated to Demos and the Three Graces.

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