It was the heart of the city –
where ordinary citizens bought and sold goods, politics were discussed and
ideas were passed among great minds like Aristotle and Plato.
Who knows where we'd be without
the "agoras" of ancient
Greece. Lacking the concept of democracy, perhaps, or the formula for the
length of the sides of a triangle (young math students, rejoice!). Modern
doctors might not have anything to mutter as an oath.
What went on at the agora went beyond the simple daily
transactions of the market. The conversations that happened there and the ideas
that they bore continue to affect us to this day, from the way scientists carry
out their work to how we pass our laws.
Some of the world's most important ideas were born and
perfected within the confines of the Athenian agora including, famously, the
concept of democracy.
Regular Athenian citizens had the power to vote for anything
and everything
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