herodou attikou street or irodou attikou street (greek: οδός ηρώδου αττικού, ) is located east of downtown athens and is adjacent to the national garden of athens. the street is named after the ancient athenian rhetorician, magnate and major benefactor of the roman era, herodes atticus as its direction is towards panathenaic stadium, at the east hill of which (nowadays pangrati) his mausoleum was found.