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Stretching across the open ground at the northern foot of the Acropolis below the Areopagus Hill, the Ancient Agora of Athens was the principal civic, commercial and political square of ancient Athens from the sixth century BC through to the Roman period. The site provides one of the most evocative open-air archaeological landscapes anywhere in Greece and was the principal everyday gathering place of the citizens of the classical Athenian democracy. The Agora was first laid out as a public squa...