Sentences with agora
ag·o·ra
A a - It sounds like an aluminum 1 agora coin from Israel.
- There was a famous cathedral in Amsterdam that operated as a sort of agora, a public forum.
- 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.
- 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.
- Already video conferencing, e-commerce, and video entertainment are migrating to cyberspace, leaving behind the agoras, bazaars, and amphitheatres of the past.
- With time, the agora or marketplace began to appear within the polis.
- 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.
- 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.
- Amongst the first buildings to be set out in the new Hellenistic city were the agora and the monumental temples on the acropolis.
- We could basically make philosophy more popular than it's been since the days of the agora, in ancient Greece.
- 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.
- 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.
- With the introduction of the shekel on February 24, 1980, a series of new agora coins was put into circulation.
- From the Greek agora to the contemporary mall, the forms of public space are a direct reflection of society's public and private values.
- 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.