Word: agora
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guaranteed acceptance, and the hierarchy, if any, is slight (Tau Zeta Epsilon--"Tizzy"--seems to be ranked a notch above the rest). Far from being an important part of the college's life, either intellectual or social (they were originally formed with specific purposes in mind, for example the Agora as a political science organization), they have become merely a pleasant place to take a date. The most frequently spoken
Homer A. Thompson, archaeologist who helped restore the Agora of Athens L.H.D...
...gods who controlled the destinies of ancient Athens were enshrined on the high hill called the Acropolis, but the common people who made the city truly immortal were content to congregate just below, in a vast marketplace known as the Agora. There, in 25 crowded acres which served them as a combination shopping center and community forum, the free and free-speaking people of Athens pursued a favorite pastime which consisted, in the words of St. Paul, of "nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." A favorite meeting place in the ancient Agora...
...after its construction, the Stoa, like most of Athens, was razed to a crumbling ruin of broken marble and ashes by invading hordes of Herulian barbarians from the north. During the 18-odd centuries that followed, its remains were lost beneath the accumulation of ages, and the once lively Agora itself became a depressing shantytown whose drab life gave no hint of past glories. In 1922, with the help of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the Greek government decided to do something about it. It took nearly a decade to complete the necessary arrangements, and the work...
...agora of ancient Athens was the nearest thing to the birthplace of Western civilization. Primarily a market place, it served as university, town meeting, news and gossip center, gathering place for poets, artists and philosophers. For years archaeologists of the American School of Classical Studies have been excavating at the site of the agora, removing some ten feet of dirt. Last week they were busy restoring the Stoa of Attalus, one of the agora's main buildings...