Sentences with 'agora'
Example sentences and phrases with the word agora and other words derived from it.
• « Citizens met in the agora, an open area used as a marketplace and public square, and discussed matters of importance to the polis as a whole. »
• « The discovery was made not by excavation but by reflecting on an already known building a hundred metres from the agora, 37 metres long and 16 metres wide, with square rooms 4.5 metres on a side. »
• « Plato's account of Socrates' death speaks of a building close to the agora, with similar characteristics to it, where there was even an enclosure, which would be where Socrates took his last bath. The argument is reinforced by the discovery of teddy bears about four centimetres high, which were supposed to contain the poison to be taken by those condemned to death. »