Word: agora
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patient diggers of the American School of Classical Studies last week finished their twelfth season of rooting into ancient Athens. They had concentrated on the Agora, or central public square, one of the oldest continually inhabitated spots on earth. Beneath the Agora, history and prehistory lie in deep-stacked layers. All the great trends in civilization have touched this enchanted area, as they are touching...
...bore the curt instruction: "Leave the saw under the threshold." The diggers have already figured out how the Acropolis (citadel) of Athens looked at various periods of history, and have even built models (see cut}. But there is still much work to be done in and under the Agora. The diggers think that they have chores to keep them busy for the next 16 years. By then they hope to tell the whole story of how ancient Athens looked and lived throughout its long, important past...
...Agora (1906-09), Agudath Kimah (1920-23), Anti-Wine Society (1837-43), Aureus Ramus (1825), Lemonade Club (1844-58), Chitty Pleading Club (1874-75), Deipnophatoi (1815), Eranetic Club (1829), Free Wool Club (1889-91), Friendly Fire Society (1833), Hard Cyder Club (1755), Mixolydian Quintette Club (1875-76), Monks of the Flagon (1848-56), De Schwatgenide Brudorschaft (1885-86), Society to Discourage Perpetration of Crimes (1793), Star Chamber (1873-74), West End Crowd (1864). Ydel Cruth (1860), Wicht Club...
Financed by John D. Rockefeller Jr., who put up a total of $1,200,000, the big dig in Athens laid bare the site of the Agora (ancient market place) lying at the foot of the Acropolis and the Areopagus. To get at this, the diggers had to tear down 365 houses in modern Athens. Some 250,000 tons of earth were removed from 25 acres. In Philadelphia last week, Dr. Shear gave the American Philosophical Society a summary of the finds...