Meaning of agorai | Babel Free

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Noun. [B1]

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“The Phaiacians have⟳ many agorai (7.43–45), but at least one built around a handsome shrine of Poseidon and surrounded by a wall of quarried stones, and one phrase suggests that an agora would have⟳ regular places in which to sit⟳.”

“Although difficult to prove⟳ archaeologically, it is traditionally accepted that early agorai were open⟳ spaces that were intentionally left unbuilt to host⟳ the citizens’ assembly, and to gather the troops for military exercises.”

“The reuse of statues in Late Antiquity is well-established, with examples of re-cutting of sculpture found on fora / agorai at Alba Fucens, Scolacium, Lepcis, Thessalonica, Athens, Corinth, Aphrodisias, and Cyrene.”

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