jun 27, 600 BC - Athenian Agora
Description:
600 BCE - 150 CELand, (plan/design)
Greece
• Agora- central meeting place
• Democracy in athens- participated directly starting in thee 5th century
• Great speakers could become powerful, there was rotation
• Started out as a place for market and people to gather, gradually became a place for government during archaic and classical periods
• Stoa of attalos- place where people started conduct business, political discussions, civic life
• Yearly procession during a festival honoring athena would lead from Agora up to sacred mount to parthenon
• Agora was an area of buildings
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Date:
jun 27, 600 BC
Now
~ 2628 years ago