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The Agora is a big wide open space in the centre of some buildings. It was the town’s market place and meeting place.
The word Agora first meant an assembly or meeting and it really was its most important purpose. The Agora was the parliament or centre of government. So on assembly day all the citizens met and would be there and the Agora was even more crowded than usual.

Early in the morning people would start to come to the Agora from the town or nearby villages. If a slave didn’t have any regular work, then he’d go to the Agora hoping to be hired by the day, but the sort of work going there was the worst kind of labour – in quarries or mines. They did all the hard work that needed doing.

Words by Rachel E

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