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The agora (/ ˈ æ ɡ ə r ə /; Ancient Greek: ἀγορά, romanized: agorá, meaning "market" in Modern Greek) was a central public space in ancient Greek city-states. The literal meaning of the word "agora" is "gathering place" or "assembly". The agora was the center of the athletic, artistic, business, social, spiritual, and political life ...
View of the ancient agora. The temple of Hephaestus is to the left and the Stoa of Attalos to the right.. The ancient Agora of Athens (also called the Classical Agora) is the best-known example of an ancient Greek agora, located to the northwest of the Acropolis and bounded on the south by the hill of the Areopagus and on the west by the hill known as the Agoraios Kolonos, also called Market ...
The Roman Agora was built around 100 metres east of the original agora by Eucles of Marathon between 27 BC and 17 BC (or possibly in 10 BC), [1] using funds donated by Augustus, in fulfilment of a promise originally made by Julius Caesar in 51 BC. [2]
In 1968, The Cleveland Agora built the first concert venue in-house recording studio, Agency Recording Studios, to produce records, live broadcasts from the Agora stage, and radio programs in stereo. In 1970, The LoContis opened The Agora in Columbus, OH in the old State Theatre on the Ohio State University campus, across the street from the ...
Plan of the Agora at the end of the Classical Period (ca. 300 BC); the Stoa Poikile is number 11. Plan of the Ancient Agora of Athens in the Roman Imperial period (ca. 150 AD). The Stoa Poikile ( Ancient Greek : ἡ ποικίλη στοά , hē poikílē stoá ) or Painted Portico was a Doric stoa (a covered walkway or portico) erected around ...
It was built by and named after King Attalos II of Pergamon, who ruled between 159 and 138 BC. The building was reconstructed from 1952 to 1956 by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and currently houses the Museum of the Ancient Agora. The museum's exhibits are mostly connected with the Athenian democracy. The collection of the ...
The Middle Stoa was built around 183 BC. [4] The similarity of construction of the two buildings shows that the East Building was built around the same time, but the two structures are not perfectly aligned, showing that they were not built at exactly the same moment, and the relationship between them indicates that the East Building was later. [1]
The Agora of Smyrna, alternatively known as the Agora of İzmir (Turkish: İzmir Agorası), is an ancient Roman agora located in Smyrna (present-day İzmir, Turkey). Originally built by the Greeks in the 4th century BC, the agora was ruined by an earthquake in 178 AD. [1] Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius ordered its reconstruction. [2]