A public gathering place or forum; especially an ancient Greek marketplace, such as the ones in Corinth and Athens. See a photograph and more information.
( AG·o·ra). Originally in ancient Greece a public square or open marketplace. Later agora referred to a popular political assembly or the place where such an assembly would meet.
The public open space that formed the heart of ancient Greek cities and it's the origin of most western conceptions of public, or civic, space as center of for social interaction for ceremony and democratic life on a pedestrian scale.
A marketplace or gathering place in ancient Greek cities.
Revealed in central Izmir during excavations carried out in 1932-1941 in the district of Namazgah. eovering an area of 120 x 80 m, the agora throws invaluable light on Roman period Izmir. it was not only a market place, but the location of public institutions and the Temple of Zeus. The agora is open to the public between 9.00 -12.00 and 13.00 -18.00. The statues found here are on exhibit in Izmir Archaeological Museum.
A business web that handles a complex exchange between buyers and sellers. Prices are "discovered" through real-time, on-the-spot negotiations, through one-to-one haggling and multiparty auctions and exchanges. ‘Agora' was the name for a marketplace in ancient Greece. The firm provides a "virtual" place for commerce to take place. Highly self organized with a low level of value integration.
Open market or a public space in ancient Greece. The word Agora drives from the word ageiro meaning I gather. In the beginning somebody spoke in an open space and people gathered around. Our modern term agoraphobia, meaning fear of public places, comes from this word.
a place of assembly for the people in ancient Greece
a marketplace in a Greek city
(Roman Forum) - an open area for informal public assembly; also market place
This was the Greek word for "marketplace," known by the Romans as the forum.
ancient Greek marketplace and city center
In ancient Greek cities, the open marketplace, often used for public meetings.
(12) -- the market place; the commercial and administrative center of a city (Pedley, 353)
An open space in a Greek town used as a central gathering place or market. In Roman times, called a forum.
Marketplace of a town. It is a Greek term and is used to refer to the forum of a Roman city founded in Greek lands.
Often referred to as an ancient marketplace, it was the center of commercial activity of an ancient city.
a public place for business and recreation; a marketplace
in a Greek city the main commercial and cultural centre.
Public square of marketplace.
Large open space used for assembly of the citizens; thus the center of a Greek city.
An agora (αγοÏά), translatable as marketplace, was an essential part of an ancient Greek polis or city-state. An agora acted as a marketplace and a forum to the citizens of the polis. The agora arose along with the poleis after the fall of Mycenaean civilization, and were well established as a part of a city by the time of Homer (probably the 8th century BC).
Agora (in Greek AγoÏα) was an ancient town situated about the middle of the narrow neck of the Thracian Chersonese (called today Gallipoli peninsula), and not far from Cardia, in what is now European Turkey. Xerxes, when invading Greece in 480 BC, passed through it.