The Importance Of The Agora In Ancient Greece

The Agora is a common place in each city in ancient Greece as it was created at first for citizens to hear some city announcement, discuss the city politics or gather for military campaigns. After sometime the agora define the open-air place of the tented marketplace in the city where buyers can sell their goods at their shops and also for craftsmen to show their talents. (MARK, 2013)The agora usually was located near to a harbor or in the middle of the city which was surrounded by temples, shops and stoas , sometimes by trees , fountains and statues . by the fifth and the fourth centuries two kinds of agora appeared , on type is the archaic and one is the ionic , the agora of Elis consider to be an example for the archaic type which the colonnades were not coordinated which create a disorder in the general appearance. The agora of Athens was rebuilt after the Persian war to the ionic type which was more symmetrical. This type was preferred and later on was developed in the Hellenistic and roman times. (encyolopedia, 2011) By the late Neolithic era the agora of Athens was heavily used. It started as the center of Greek people in their politics and economics by the sixth century it was also consider as a place for government and judiciary also a place for citizens to debate, as mentioned before it’s a place for worship and a marketplace as well. The Athens agora also consider to be the first place to practice a democratic political system. Other practices were held in the