ABSTRACT
The agora of Lato had broad steps rising on its northern side, forming an auditorium from which the spectators could watch spectacles or listen to speeches in the space below,2 so that its position and form have much in common with the features of the early agora; and Tritsch maintained that it was in fact an example which fitted Homer's description of the agora.3 There is certainly no doubt that it carries on the same tradition, although it is now maintained that the earliest constructions in Lato do not date beyond the archaic period, and some features are as late as the third century B.C.4
