agora
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The futuristic Grecian agora, which opened in 2022, was beyond anything they’d built before — similar to Red Rocks in Colorado or Forest Hills Stadium in New York.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026
It’s a lovely image: Kirk as a modern-day Socrates, wandering the agora of America’s universities seeking to find truth by means of rhetorical contest.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2025
The report is the initial phase of an ambitious effort to map the modern agora, referring to the lively assembly places of ancient Greece often considered to be the birthplace of democracy.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2023
The Stoics were so named because Zeno instructed his students in the stoa poikile, or “painted porch” in the Athenian agora.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
One of the books of Epicurus was publicly burnt in the agora by order of Alexander, and the ashes cast into the sea.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel
Markets provided for those that bought and sold, while for business of more important kinds accommodation could be secured by laying out new agorae or fora in the immediate vicinity of the old.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
Vocabulary lists containing agora
Ancient Greece - Introductory
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Ancient Greece - Middle School and High School
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Chapter 7: The Ancient Greeks
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