AGORA

ăgˈərə [Gr.,=market], in ancient Greece, the public square or marketplace of a city. In early Greek history the agora was primarily used as a place for public assembly; later it functioned mainly as a center of commerce. Usually in a readily accessible part of the city, it was often surrounded by the public buildings, such as the royal palace, the law courts, the assembly house, and the jail. A favorite architectural device was the colonnade surrounding the agora. One of the highest honors was to be granted a tomb in the agora. The agora was similar to the Roman forum.

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Miniature Sculpture from the Athenian Agora
Book by Dorothy Burr Thompson, Alison Frantz; American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1959
Subjects: Agora (Athens, Greece), Sculpture, Greek--Greece--Athens
EXCAVATIONS OF THE ATHENIAN AGORA PICTURE BOOKS Pots and Pans of Classical...Miniature Sculpture from the Athenian Agora 2nd Printing, 1962 The Athenian Citizen Ancient Portraits from the Athenian Agora Amphoras and the Ancient Wine Trade The...
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Town and Square from the Agora to the Village Green
Book by Paul Zucker; Columbia University Press, 1959
Subjects: City Planning--History, Plazas
...know, for instance, that in Athens the agora during the Bronze Age served as a burial...There exists a decisive difference between agora and acropolis. While generally the alterations...out of respect for sacred tradition, the agora changed continuously in most intimate contact...
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Ancient Portraits from the Athenian Agora
Book by Alison Frantz; American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1960
Subjects: Sculpture, Ancient, Sculpture, Greek
ANCIENT PORTRAITS FROM THE ATHENIAN AGORA WHEN Pausanias visited the Athenian Agora around the middle of the 2nd century after Christ...Athenians to be publicly honored with statues in the Agora. The bronze statues by Antenor, which may have...
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Lamps from the Athenian Agora
Book by Judith Perlzweig; American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1963
Subjects: Lamps
...recovered and cleaned up their town, throwing the debris into abandoned wells. One such well at the southwest corner of the Agora yielded household pottery, black-figured and red-figured pots, two loomweights, four bone styli for writing on waxed...
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Athens and Macedon: Attic Letter-Cutters of 300 to 229 B.C
Book by Stephen V. Tracy; University of California Press, 2003
Subjects: Athens (Greece)--History, Attic Greek Dialect--Writing, Inscriptions, Greek--Greece--Attik?E, Macedonia--History, Stone-Cutters--Greece--Attik?E--History
no. 119 Agora I 4929 no. 125 IG II 2 2437 AGORA xvi no. 62 Agora I 5173 no. 114 Agora I 5972 1441 no. 117 Agora I 7070 and I 5463 no. 118 Agora I 937 no. 119 Agora I 4988 no. 134 Agora I 5256 no. 162 IG II 2 643 and Agora I 4812 no. 172...
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Agora: The Impact of High-Stakes Testing
Journal article; Journal of Teacher Education, Vol. 51, 2000
Subjects: Academic achievement--Measurement, Educational tests and measurements--Evaluation, Teachers, Rating of--Evaluation
AGORA: THE IMPACT OF HIGH-STAKES TESTING. In ancient Greece, the agora (pronounced ag-a-ruh), or marketplace, was...discourse, and trade merchandise. In the JTE, the "Agora" is a forum where an intellectual exchange of ideas...
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Agora: May the President Violate Customary International Law? (Cont'd)
Journal article by Frederic L. Kirgis Jr., Anthony D'Amato, Jordan J. Paust; American Journal of International Law, Vol. 81, 1987
Subjects: International Relations--Periodicals
AGORA: MAY THE PRESIDENT VIOLATE CUSTOMARY INTERNATIONAL...raised in this publications October 1986 Agora 1 and, repeatedly, during the drafting...1 See Agora: May the President Violate Customary International...
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The Goldstone Report on the Gaza Conflict: An Agora
Journal article by Tom Farer; Global Governance, Vol. 16, 2010
Subjects: Arab-Israeli conflicts--Analysis, Arab-Israeli conflicts--Investigations, Gaza, Gaza Strip--Military aspects, Hamas-Israeli Conflict, 2008-2009--Investigations, Human rights--Investigations, Israel-Arab conflicts--Analysis, Israel-Arab conflicts--Investigations, Israel--Military policy, Military maneuvers--Ethical aspects, Military operations--Ethical aspects, United Nations--Reports, War crimes--Investigations
...Goldstone Report on the Gaza Conflict: An Agora. by Tom Farer Introduction Tom Farer By...as the events precipitating it. In this agora, four eminent international lawyers...reactions to it and to use our first "agora" as a vehicle for the dissemination of...
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Agora: the U.S. Decision Not to Ratify Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions on the Protection of War Victims (Cont'd)
Journal article by Abraham D. Sofaer; American Journal of International Law, Vol. 82, 1988
Subjects: International Relations--Periodicals
AGORA: THE U.S. DECISION NOT TO RATIFY PROTOCOL I TO THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS...The Presidents letter of transmittal and Dr. Gassers article constituted an Agora section entitled "The U.S. Decision Not to Ratify Protocol I to the Geneva...
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Agora: the U.S. Decision Not to Ratify Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions on the Protection of War Victims
Journal article by Hans-Peter Gasser; American Journal of International Law, Vol. 81, 1987
Subjects: International Relations--Periodicals
AGORA: THE U.S. DECISION NOT TO RATIFY PROTOCOL I TO THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS ON THE PROTECTION OF WAR VICTIMS This Agora consists of President Reagans message to the Senate transmitting Protocol II to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, in which...
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Agora-x Petitions Cftc Again
Magazine article; Futures, Vol. 38, January 2009
Agora-x Petitions Cftc Again On Nov. 17, Agora-X which is developing an institutional electronic communications...on this issue already have been filed by CME Group and ICE. Agora-X also petitioned the agency to allow for clearing for OTC...
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Connecting the Dots: One Teacher's Story of Her Travels on the Information Superhighway
Magazine article by Bonnie Bracey; Technos: Quarterly for Education and Technology, Vol. 9, Spring 2000
Subjects: Computer assisted instruction--Personal narratives, Computer-assisted instruction--Personal narratives, Educational technology--Evaluation, Teacher education, Teachers--Training
...use of technology, I jumped at the chance. In Thessaloniki, Greece, at the annual AGORA (www.agora.org and www.childrens-media. org/ectc/e_agora.htm) meeting in June 1999, there had been angry voices speaking to me about the...
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Dashboards That Guide Good
Magazine article by Anne Marie Burgoyne; Stanford Social Innovation Review, Vol. 8, Spring 2010
...and what it can understand. Agora Partnerships is one social enterprise...most nonprofits Audiences, Agoras stakeholders want a handful...spreadsheet Established in 2005, Agora, based in Washington, D...and financing. For example, Agora worked with Roberto Mejia and...
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Return to Greece
Magazine article by James Allan Evans; Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 108, Spring 2001
Subjects: Athens, Greece--Description and travel, Civilization, Greek--History, Greece--History, Parthenon--History, Travel--Greece
...to display the finds from the Agora excavations, and any new structure...landmarks of the ancient city. The Agora was the civic centre of ancient...a democracy, the classical Agora (the upper case "A" distinguishes it from many other agoras, for in Greek it may be anything...
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Seeing Red
Magazine article by Amanda Groover; News Media and the Law, Vol. 29, Summer 2005
Subjects: Financial reporting, First Amendment-US, Litigation, Newsletters, Reporters
...Maryland. (Although Agora and Mulligans cases arose...court ultimately accepted Agoras First Amendment argument...legal challenge facing Agora could affect every news...reports on securities. Agoras writers investigate companies...stock trades. In 2002, Agora Publisher Frank Porter...
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PMA Gears Up for the 28th Agora Awards
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, November 6, 2007
PMA Gears Up for the 28th Agora Awards. The countdown to unveiling this years roster of Agora Greats now begins! Philippine Marketing Association...gearing up for the awarding ceremonies of the Agora Awards, its flagship project. Slated on the...
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DESK and WEB ... Please Remove Ramona Picture. Only Agora Should Be Attached Note Use of Today Agora ... Two and a Half Stars Dann in Reel Life
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 23, 2010
...WEB ... Please Remove Ramona Picture. Only Agora Should Be Attached Note Use of Today Agora ... Two and a Half Stars Dann in Reel Life...call (847) 202-5222. Reel Life review: Agora Alejandro Amenabars drama of ancient Egypt...
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Return of the Mummy; Rachel Weisz Took Her Family along for Her Latest Film Agora
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), April 23, 2010
Subjects: Aronofsky, Darren, Motion pictures, Movies
...Took Her Family along for Her Latest Film Agora. Byline: ALUN PALMER When Rachel Weisz won the leading role in the epic drama Agora, the four-month shoot in Malta turned...was kind of bonkers - but how dreamy!" Agora - out today - tells of the time when pagan...
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Weisz Up to Malta; on Location: Rachel Weisz Is Working on Her New Film Agora in Picturesque Malta
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 11, 2008
Subjects: Real estate industry
...Malta; on Location: Rachel Weisz Is Working on Her New Film Agora in Picturesque Malta. Byline: ZOE DARE HALL MALTA is firmly...starring Russell Crowe, to ancient Egypt, soonto be seen in Agora, which English actress Rachel Weisz is filming on theisland...
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Do You Know the Way to San Juan?
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, July 31, 2005
...Street and F. Blumentritt Street is the Agora Complex. Several beauty parlors, bakeries...pharmacies and eateries line the road. The Agora Complex attracts hordes of consumers...and mineral water delivery stalls. The Agora is a shoppers paradise, which can almost...
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encyclopedia articles on: Agora  - 6 results

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Agora
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AGORA ag r Gr.,=market, in ancient Greece...marketplace of a city. In early Greek history the agora was primarily used as a place for public...device was the colonnade surrounding the agora. One of the highest honors was to be granted...
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Stoa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...sometimes decorated with paintings. Such stoas surrounded the agora or marketplace of every large city and were used for public meetings. The Stoa Poecile on the north side of the agora of Athens was the favorite meeting place of the philosopher...
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Forum
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FORUM market and meeting place in ancient Roman towns in Italy and later in the provinces, corresponding to the Greek agora . By extension the word forum often indicates the meeting itself in modern usage. The forum was usually square or rectangular...
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Cyrene
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Eratosthenes, and Synesius were born here. Extensive ruins include the temple of Apollo (dating from the 7th cent. b.c.), the agora, the capitol, the acropolis, and the theater. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University...
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Stoicism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...The first Stoics were so called because they met in the Stoa Poecile Gr.,=painted porch, at Athens, a colonnade near the Agora, to hear their master Zeno lecture. He had studied with Crates the Cynic, and his own teaching included the Cynic adaptation...
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