The Agora was an open "place of assembly" in ancient Greek city-states. Stoa (plural stoae or stoæ) in Ancient Greek architecture; covered walkways or Porticos commonly for public usage Thessaloniki (Θεσσαλονίκη), Thessalonica, or Salonica is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of Macedonia The term ancient Greece refers to the period of Greek history lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca Early in Greek history (900s–700s BCE), free-born male land-owners who were citizens would gather in the agora for military duty or to hear statements of the ruling king or council. Later in Greek history, the agora served as a marketplace where merchants kept stalls or shops to sell their goods under colonnades.
Classical Athens boasted a large agora in the very heart of the city. Athens (ˈæθənz Αθήνα Athina,) the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery as one of the world's Under the Athenian dictators Pisistratus and Hippias, the agora was cleared to a rectangular open area of about 600 by 750 yards, bordered with grand public buildings. Peisistratos or Peisistratus or Pisistratus (in Greek,) traditionally paɪˈsɪstrətəs in English, is the name of several personalities Hippias can also refer to the tyrant of Athens son of Peisistratus
The ancient Athenian agora has been excavated by the American School of Classical Studies since 1931. Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Tyre ( Arabic صور Ṣūr, Phoenician Phoenician wawsvg|12px|ו]] Ṣur, Hebrew Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from Greek grc ἀρχαιολογία archaiologia – grc ἀρχαῖος archaīos Al Mina was an ancient city on the Mediterranean coast of northern Syria, in the estuary of the Orontes, near present-day Samandag. In the 1950s, the Hellenistic Stoa of Attalos was reconstructed on the east side of the agora, and today it serves as a museum and as storage and office space for the excavation team.
The word agoraphobia, the fear of critical public situations, derives from agora in its meaning as a marketplace. Agoraphobia is an Anxiety disorder, often precipitated by the fear of having a Panic attack in a setting from which there is no easy means of escape