Definition of "agorai"
agorai
noun
Quotations
The Phaiacians have many agorai (7.43–45), but at least one built around a handsome shrine of Poseidon and surrounded by a wall of quarried stones, and one phrase suggests that an agora would have regular places in which to sit.
1997, Gregory Crane, “Oikos and Agora: Mapping the Polis in Aristophanes’ Wasps”, in Gregory W. Dobrov, editor, The City as Comedy: Society and Representation in Athenian Drama, University of North Carolina Press, page 205
Although difficult to prove archaeologically, it is traditionally accepted that early agorai were open spaces that were intentionally left unbuilt to host the citizens’ assembly, and to gather the troops for military exercises.
2018, Chiara Piccoli, Visualizing Cityscapes of Classical Antiquity: From Early Modern Reconstruction Drawings to Digital 3D Models; With a Case Study from the Ancient Town of Koroneia, in Boeotia, Greece, Archaeopress, page 176