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Agora (1)

The name literally means “an assembly of the people” as opposed to “an assembly of chiefs.”

The term Agora was used in both the formal and general sense:

  1. To name the people’s council of any town,
  2. The name of the area where the council met and
  3. A common term for the market-place in any ancient Greek town.

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