The term agora (pronounced ah-go-RAH) is Greek for 'open place of assembly' and, early in the history of Greece, designated the area in a city where free-born citizens could gather to hear civic announcements, muster for military campaigns, or discuss politics. It later designated the open-air marketplace of a city.
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Timeline
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c. 7000 BCE - 5000 BCEHuman habitation on the Acropolis and around the Agora of Athens continues from Neolithic Period.
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c. 1700 BCE - c. 1100 BCEMycenaean Period. Agora established at Athens.
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c. 1100 BCE - c. 600 BCEIron Age Development, public buildings erected at the Agora in Athens.
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560 BCE - 507 BCEFurther development and expansion of the Agora of Athens.
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480 BCESack of Athens by the Persians under Xerxes. The Agora is destroyed.
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460 BCE - 429 BCEThe Age of Pericles. Athenian Agora is rebuilt, construction of Parthenon.
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431 BCE - 404 BCEThe Peloponnesian Wars which leave Athens defeated and the Agora damaged.
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2 Aug 338 BCEThe Battle of Charonea gives Athens to the Macedonian victors. Agora takes on Macedonian characteristics.
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159 BCE - 138 BCEKing Attalos II of Pergamon builds the great Stoa in the Agora of Athens.
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146 BCERoman influence over Greece begins to rise.
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86 BCESiege of Athens by the Roman general Sulla. Agora is destroyed.
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27 BCE - 14 CEReign of Augustus Caesar. Athens and the Agora restored.
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117 CE - 138 CERule of the Roman Emperor Hadrian who supports great building projects in and around the Agora of Athens.
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267 CEAgora of Athens burned by invading Herulians.
