agora
Example Sentences
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Hours before his scheduled appearance, stadium parking lots become agoras for hundreds who browse about looking at Dylan T shirts, posters and songbooks hawked by local vendors.
From Time Magazine Archive
In due course, movies like Spartacus and The Ten Commandments would satisfy the need once felt for Bible scenes, Greek agoras and Roman battles.
From Time Magazine Archive
"There should be a contrast," rejoined Eudora, smiling: "The pillars of agoras are always of lighter and less majestic proportions than the pillars of temples."
From Philothea A Grecian Romance by Child, Lydia Maria Francis
The Peiræus in short is a semi-independent community; with its shrines, its agoras, its theaters, its court rooms, and other public buildings.
From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by Davis, William Stearns
Loud shouts of laughter came from the agoras, and the whole air was filled with the hum of a busy multitude.
From Philothea A Grecian Romance by Child, Lydia Maria Francis
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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