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The Agora (pronounced 'a-gor-r?, with stress on the first syllable) was an open "place of assembly" in ancient Greek
Ancient Greece

The term Ancient Greece refers to the period of History of Greece lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1100 BC and the Dorian invasion, to 146 BC and the Roman Republic conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth ....
 city-states. Early in Greek history (900s–700s BCE), free-born male land-owners who were citizens would gather in the agora for military duty or to hear statements of the ruling king or council. Later in Greek history, the agora served as a marketplace where merchants kept stalls or shops to sell their goods amid colonnades
Colonnades

Colonnades may refer to one of two things*Colonnade - A Roman type of structure*Centro Colonnades - A shopping centre in Noarlunga Centre, South Australia in South Australia...
.

The word agoraphobia
Agoraphobia

Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder, often precipitated by the fear of having a panic attack in a setting from which there is no easy means of escape....
, the fear of critical public situations, derives from agora in its meaning as a gathering place.
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Classical Athens

The city of Athens during classical antiquity was a notable polis of Attica, Ancient Greece, leading the Delian League in the Peloponnesian War against Sparta and the Peloponnesian League....
 boasted a large agora in the heart of the city.






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The Agora (pronounced 'a-gor-r?, with stress on the first syllable) was an open "place of assembly" in ancient Greek
Ancient Greece

The term Ancient Greece refers to the period of History of Greece lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1100 BC and the Dorian invasion, to 146 BC and the Roman Republic conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth ....
 city-states. Early in Greek history (900s–700s BCE), free-born male land-owners who were citizens would gather in the agora for military duty or to hear statements of the ruling king or council. Later in Greek history, the agora served as a marketplace where merchants kept stalls or shops to sell their goods amid colonnades
Colonnades

Colonnades may refer to one of two things*Colonnade - A Roman type of structure*Centro Colonnades - A shopping centre in Noarlunga Centre, South Australia in South Australia...
.

The word agoraphobia
Agoraphobia

Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder, often precipitated by the fear of having a panic attack in a setting from which there is no easy means of escape....
, the fear of critical public situations, derives from agora in its meaning as a gathering place.

Athens

Classical Athens
Classical Athens

The city of Athens during classical antiquity was a notable polis of Attica, Ancient Greece, leading the Delian League in the Peloponnesian War against Sparta and the Peloponnesian League....
 boasted a large agora in the heart of the city. Under the Athenian dictators Pisistratus and Hippias
Hippias

Hippias of Elis Ancient Greece Sophist, was born about the middle of the 5th century BC and was thus a younger contemporary of Protagoras and Socrates....
, the agora was cleared to a triangular open area of about 600 by 750 yards, bordered with grand public buildings.

The American School of Classical Studies has been excavating the ancient Athenian agora since 1931. In the 1950s, the Hellenistic Stoa of Attalos
Stoa of Attalos

The Stoa of Attalos is recognised as one of the most impressive stoa in the Ancient Agora of Athens. It was built by and named after Attalos II of Pergamon who ruled between 159 BC and 138 BC....
 was reconstructed on the east side of the agora, and today it serves as a museum and as storage and office space for the excavation team. The agora is a market place where the people of Athens would meet and set up stalls to sell goods.

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