F) The man seems a little odd, but you are tired of walking, so you accept a ride. "So why are you going to Athens, young one?” he asks. "I am looking for a golden statue of Athena, stolen from our family shrine.” you say. "I believe that the thieves were headed towards the city-state." He chuckles slightly, and flicks the reigns. The two of you travel past olive trees, and grape vines on the road to Athens. After a long while, you see the amazing architecture of the beautiful city-state. You see Ionic columns reaching up toward the sky, with their curling capitals supporting the large public buildings. People move back and forth carrying baskets of grain and jars of wine for sale in the Agora, the market place of Athens. "I am traveling on to the city-state of Eleusis, where there is a shrine to the goddess of grain, Demeter. My crops have not been growing well, and I believe it is because my family has forsaken this goddess. Further in, toward the center of the polis is the Acropolis, the hill that contains the temples to the gods."
Do you?
I) HEAD TOWARD THE AGORA, THE MARKETPLACE
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