English: The Pompeion was the building where the preparations for the procession of the religious festival of the Panathenaea were made. The Panathenaea was celebrated every four years in honour of the goddess Athena after whom the city of Athens was named. The procession started from Kerameikos Cemetery and through the Panathenaic Way reached the Acropolis and the Parthenon (the temple dedicated to Athena) where it ended. The ruins of the Pompeion date back to the 5th cent. B.C.