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nounPlural agorot, Plural agoras, Plural agorae, Plural agoroth ˈaɡərəˈæɡərə (in ancient Greece) a public open space used for assemblies and markets. Example sentencesExamples - The Capitoline Hill became the religious center of the city and the Forum, formerly a cemetery, became a public meeting place, thus serving a similar role as the agora had at Athens.
- It's our definition of the agora (market in Ancient Rome), if you will.
- By the end of the fourth century B.C., the city had, right in the middle of the agora, a big public clock that divided every stretch of daylight into twelve hours.
- Already video conferencing, e-commerce, and video entertainment are migrating to cyberspace, leaving behind the agoras, bazaars, and amphitheatres of the past.
- From the Greek agora to the contemporary mall, the forms of public space are a direct reflection of society's public and private values.
- There was a famous cathedral in Amsterdam that operated as a sort of agora, a public forum.
- We could basically make philosophy more popular than it's been since the days of the agora, in ancient Greece.
- In Pausanias's time the forum was certainly to the south and below Temple Hill, but the location of the agora of Greek Corinth is uncertain.
- The alternative to this is not the cosy, comradely little agora of the ancient Athenians but streets filled with thousands shouting in favour of contradictory wishes and guided by neither agreed ethics nor law.
- The Athenian youth flocked to his side as he walked the paths of the agora.
- Timoleon resigned his office, allegedly because of blindness, died in the mid-to late 330s, and was buried in the Syracusan agora.
- To forestall a democratic counter-attack, the oligarchs set fire to the buildings around the agora, causing massive loss of property and risking a general conflagration.
- With time, the agora or marketplace began to appear within the polis.
- A fundamental question is how to prepare this ‘fearless speaker’ to participate in the agora or contemporary public space.
- Amongst the first buildings to be set out in the new Hellenistic city were the agora and the monumental temples on the acropolis.
- Today, as you step out of Liverpool Lime Street Station and are confronted by the classical triumphalism of St. George's Hall and a cobbled public space vaguely reminiscent of an Athenian agora, that urban ideal is instantly apparent.
- And while I agree that a more public social ecology is emerging, it is a public like the Greek agora, a forum for only some members of society…
- He struck me as a latter-day Socrates who had missed out on his true calling in the agora of Periclean Athens by some 2,500 years.
- For him this market, or agora, is not the center of our city but the city itself, the place where we live.
- There is no agora, no public space for debating ideas, interests, policies
nounPlural agorot, Plural agoras, Plural agorae, Plural agoroth ˌaɡəˈrɑːæɡəˈrɑ A monetary unit of Israel, equal to one hundredth of a shekel. Example sentencesExamples - For many people, the very essence of Israeliness is expressed in the visual icons that came into being in the early decades of the state - from the scallop-edged agora coin and the bedroom slippers that went everywhere to the cottage cheese container that can still be found in almost every refrigerator in the country.
- With the introduction of the shekel on February 24, 1980, a series of new agora coins was put into circulation.
- The New Agora which replaced the existing Agora was given the value of 1 New Agora: 10 Agoras.
- I tried to push it in with another 10-agora coin, and on the small screen of the meter the word "Fail" appeared.
- It sounds like an aluminum 1 agora coin from Israel. These have scalloped edges, not round.
Origin From Hebrew 'ăg̱ōrāh 'small coin'. nounˈaɡərəˈæɡərə (in ancient Greece) a public open space used for assemblies and markets. Example sentencesExamples - He struck me as a latter-day Socrates who had missed out on his true calling in the agora of Periclean Athens by some 2,500 years.
- From the Greek agora to the contemporary mall, the forms of public space are a direct reflection of society's public and private values.
- The Capitoline Hill became the religious center of the city and the Forum, formerly a cemetery, became a public meeting place, thus serving a similar role as the agora had at Athens.
- Already video conferencing, e-commerce, and video entertainment are migrating to cyberspace, leaving behind the agoras, bazaars, and amphitheatres of the past.
- The alternative to this is not the cosy, comradely little agora of the ancient Athenians but streets filled with thousands shouting in favour of contradictory wishes and guided by neither agreed ethics nor law.
- A fundamental question is how to prepare this ‘fearless speaker’ to participate in the agora or contemporary public space.
- By the end of the fourth century B.C., the city had, right in the middle of the agora, a big public clock that divided every stretch of daylight into twelve hours.
- There was a famous cathedral in Amsterdam that operated as a sort of agora, a public forum.
- In Pausanias's time the forum was certainly to the south and below Temple Hill, but the location of the agora of Greek Corinth is uncertain.
- Amongst the first buildings to be set out in the new Hellenistic city were the agora and the monumental temples on the acropolis.
- There is no agora, no public space for debating ideas, interests, policies
- The Athenian youth flocked to his side as he walked the paths of the agora.
- And while I agree that a more public social ecology is emerging, it is a public like the Greek agora, a forum for only some members of society…
- For him this market, or agora, is not the center of our city but the city itself, the place where we live.
- Today, as you step out of Liverpool Lime Street Station and are confronted by the classical triumphalism of St. George's Hall and a cobbled public space vaguely reminiscent of an Athenian agora, that urban ideal is instantly apparent.
- To forestall a democratic counter-attack, the oligarchs set fire to the buildings around the agora, causing massive loss of property and risking a general conflagration.
- We could basically make philosophy more popular than it's been since the days of the agora, in ancient Greece.
- Timoleon resigned his office, allegedly because of blindness, died in the mid-to late 330s, and was buried in the Syracusan agora.
- With time, the agora or marketplace began to appear within the polis.
- It's our definition of the agora (market in Ancient Rome), if you will.
nounæɡəˈrɑaɡəˈrä A monetary unit of Israel, equal to one hundredth of a shekel. Example sentencesExamples - It sounds like an aluminum 1 agora coin from Israel. These have scalloped edges, not round.
- For many people, the very essence of Israeliness is expressed in the visual icons that came into being in the early decades of the state - from the scallop-edged agora coin and the bedroom slippers that went everywhere to the cottage cheese container that can still be found in almost every refrigerator in the country.
- The New Agora which replaced the existing Agora was given the value of 1 New Agora: 10 Agoras.
- I tried to push it in with another 10-agora coin, and on the small screen of the meter the word "Fail" appeared.
- With the introduction of the shekel on February 24, 1980, a series of new agora coins was put into circulation.
Origin From Hebrew 'ăg̱ōrāh ‘small coin’. |