Stoa of the ancient agora de Thessaloniki

An agora (αγορά), translatable as marketplace, was a public space and 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. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2000 × 1500 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2000 × 1500 pixel, file size: 1. ... The Painted Porch (Stoa poikile), during the 3rd century BC, was where Zeno of Citium taught Stoicism. ... Thessaloniki, (Conventional English form: Salonika, Greek: Θεσσαλονίκη), is Greeces second-largest city and the capital of the Greek region of Macedonia and the periphery of Central Macedonia. ... A marketplace is the space, actual or metaphorical, in which a market operates. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Gathering place. ... The Temple to Athena, the Parthenon Ancient Greece is a period in Greek history that lasted for around three thousand years. ... A polis (πόλις, pronunciation pol-is) plural: poleis (πόλεις) is a city, a city-state and also citizenship and body of citizens. ... This page refers to the main forum in the centre of Rome. ...

Agora also means a place of assembly in any Ancient Greek state. It is sometimes used in modern language to refer to a crossroads, either metaphorically (the point or concept which links, or is the crossroads of multiple related concepts), or literally, a point at which many physical roads or paths meet.

Roman agora of Tyre (archeological sources of Al Mina)

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). The most well-known agora is the Ancient Agora of Athens. The Agora Open Air Museum of Izmir is one of the best preserved agoras in the world. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1536x2048, 620 KB) Summary en: Tyre, Lebanon - Roman Agora (believed to be) at Al Mina excavation area sl: Tir, Libanon - rimska agora (domnevno) v arheoloÅ¡kem območju Al Mina I took the photo myself Licensing File links The following pages... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1536x2048, 620 KB) Summary en: Tyre, Lebanon - Roman Agora (believed to be) at Al Mina excavation area sl: Tir, Libanon - rimska agora (domnevno) v arheoloÅ¡kem območju Al Mina I took the photo myself Licensing File links The following pages... Nickname: Motto: SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC Government  - Mayor Walter Veltroni Area  - City 1,285 km²  (580 sq mi)  - Urban 5... The Triumphal Arch Tyre (Arabic , Phoenician , Hebrew Tzor, Tiberian Hebrew , Akkadian , Greek Týros) is a city in the South Governorate of Lebanon. ... Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from Greek: αρχαίος, archae, ancient; and λόγος, logos, knowledge) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... Al Mina, on the Aegean coast of northern Syria, in the estuary of the Orontes (near present-day Samandag) was one of the earliest Greek trading colonies, founded a little before 800 BCE, in direct competition with the Phoenicians to the south. ... A clay tablet with writing in Linear B from Mycenae. ... Homer (Greek: , ) was an early Greek poet and aoidos (rhapsode) traditionally credited with the composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey. ... (2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium) Ruins of the training grounds at Olympia, Greece. ... Remains of the agora built in Athens in the Roman period (east of the classical agora). ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ...

The word agoraphobia, the fear of critical public situations, derives from agora in its meaning as a marketplace. Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder which primarily consists of the fear of experiencing a difficult or embarrassing situation from which the sufferer cannot escape. ...

The pan-European AEGEE student society has general meetings of its network every six months called Agorae, inspired by the ideas of a forum and a crossroads mentioned above. A European is primarily a person who was born into one of the countries within the continent of Europe. ... Logo of AEGEE-Europe AEGEE, (French: Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l’Europe), the European Students Forum, is one of Europes largest interdisciplinary student organisations. ... A student society or student organization is an organization, operated by students at a university, whose membership normally consists only of students. ... A crossroads (the word rarely appears in singular) is a road junction, where two or more roads meet (there are three or more arms). ...

See also

• Agoranomos

Agoranomos (ἀγορανόμος, plural: agoranomoi, ἀγορανόμοι) was an electable official position in the cities of Ancient Greece and Byzantine Empire that controlled the order of the marketplace (agora, hence the name, translated as market overseer). A polis could have several of them. ...

External links

• Official homepage of the excavations at the Athenian Agora
• Photos of the Athenian Agora
• Official homepage of Izmir Agora Museum