agora
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Anyone who has spent any time in the digital agora will know the chilling feeling of seeing some supposedly secret thing about yourself suddenly reflected in a targeted advertisement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 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 agora, or place of assembly in each city-state, thus became a marketplace to buy and sell goods.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
There are two portals, or gateways—one leading into the old agora, or market-place, the other leading from old Athens into the Athens of Hadrian.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by J. P. Mahaffy
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
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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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