agorai

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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ᾰ̓γοραί (agoraí).

Noun

agorai

  1. plural of agora
    • 1997, Gregory Crane, “Oikos and Agora: Mapping the Polis in Aristophanes’ Wasps”, in Gregory W. Dobrov, editor, The City as Comedy: Society and Representation in Athenian Drama, University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 205:
      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.
    • 2018, Chiara Piccoli, Visualizing Cityscapes of Classical Antiquity: From Early Modern Reconstruction Drawings to Digital 3D Models; With a Case Study from the Ancient Town of Koroneia, in Boeotia, Greece, Archaeopress, →ISBN, page 176:
      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.
    • 2021, Luke Lavan, Public Space in the Late Antique City, volume 1, Brill, →ISBN, page 288:
      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.

Italian

Noun

agorai m

  1. plural of agoraio

Welsh

Pronunciation

Verb

agorai

  1. third-person singular imperfect indicative/imperfect subjunctive/conditional of agor
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