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.
The word agora is often combined with the Greek word for fear, phobia, as part of the term agoraphobic, and refers to the fear of being in crowds or in open spaces.he original word in Greek is á¼Î³Î¿ÏÎ¬, which when transliterated reads agora, with the accent on the last a. Ancient Greek cities almost invariably had an agora and Roman cities adopted them as well. In Athens, there are two surviving agoras.