The biggest addiction in college: skipping class. Part of my job as an Admissions Advisor at Eastern Washington University is to give presentations to visiting middle and high school classes that come to see what a college campus is like.
The Athenian Agora. The Agora of Athens was the center of the ancient city: a large, open square where the citizens could assemble for a wide variety of purposes. On any given day the space might be used as a market, or for an election, a dramatic performance, a religious procession, military drill, or athletic competition.
Antiquity may refer to any period before the Middle Ages (476â1453), but still within Western civilization-based human history or prehistory: Ancient history, any historical period before the Middle Ages. Classical antiquity, the classical civilizations of the Mediterranean.