Sentences with phrase «athenian agora»

The word «allegory» is from the Greek allos, meaning other, and agorein, to speak publicly in the agora, meaning the public square.

Accept Zeus into your life and sacrifice a goat at your local agora or face eternity wandering the river Styx.

The university is supposed to be an intellectual marketplace, an agora of ideas, a venue for the exchange of opinion.

He updated the agora with Starbucks, and many students found those caffeinated encounters high points of a day, a semester, and even (I once heard) a college career.

But whereas in Athens he had stayed only a short time, just long enough to become known in the agora and to make his classical apology on Mars» Hill, which gave him a few believers who became the nucleus of the Athenian church, he remained in Corinth for a year and a half.

As Paul made his case in the agora, or marketplace, he attracted the attention of the philosophers who were present there.

It was the custom of Athenian society to gather in the agora to listen to speeches by any persons who felt they had something to say and then to quiz them and often to debate them on the validity of their ideas.

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For a time, this Greek democracy also conceded equal freedom of speech in the agora to women and slaves.

You probably won't even find Mario Cuomo, someone who treated Albany like it was the Athenian agora.

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In ancient Greece, the portico — stoa in Greek — was a long, open structure that often housed shops and delineated public squares from the city — the agora.

Bane of teachers from time immemorial, this irrepressible cutup no doubt sat at the feet of Socrates in the agora — and no doubt drove the philosopher to hemlock.

Having immediate access to receive, create, curate, share, and distribute information in the very public agora of digital space does not mean that people will somehow naturally do this in thoughtful, meaningful, and compassionate ways (Rheingold, 2012).

In the north corner of the port is the agora, with countless little shops on narrow streets that lead to the city park.

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Agora Rollberg includes a contemporary dance platform called AGORA MOVE, studio spaces for artists and a new residency program.

In the open spirit of the Roman forum or Greek agora, a number of speakers discussed borders, identity and people's role in politics.

Tino Sehgal's new show — or event, or whatever this artist of social interaction's work ought to be called — is at the Roman agora in Athens.

Smith was one of the curators of AGORA: 4th Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece, 2013; and co-curated Heartland with Charles Esche and Kerstin Niemann at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 2008 and Smart Museum, 2009.

Inspired by the «agoras» (central city squares) of Ancient Greece, the show explores how public spaces can offer something as simple as a meeting place for friends to a site of social change for the community.

Other recent curatorial projects include: Reaching Re-birth, 4th Athens Biennale AGORA (2013); KOPIOITU a residency and exhibition program with Komplot Brussels and SIC Helsinki (2013); the 6th Momentum Biennial Imagine Being Here Now, Moss Norway (2011).

«It provides a temporary global agora, a place for encounters between people... a chance to create new kinds of neighbourhoods between artists and audiences.»

In 2016, Kader Attia founded La Colonie, a space in Paris to share ideas and to provide an agora for vivid discussion.

Opening up the gallery agora to fantastic artists and their captivating new works, and a critical discussion, the event promises to be an exuberant start to the autumn.

Opening up the gallery agora to fantastic artists and their captivating new works, a dynamic musical performance of urban life, and contemporary economic theory, the events promise to be an exuberant start to the Autumn.

She has worked for nearly 30 years as an international artist and her work has been exhibited widely including Suisse Arte, Basel, Switzerland, AGORA Gallery, New York, and Museo Civico, Palermo, Italy.

He was selected for the 32º Art Salon for Pará (2013) and for the residencies «Dispositivo móvel», JA.CA — Centro de Arte e Tecnologia, Nova Lima — MG (2015), and AGORA — International Art Action, Bela Crkva — Serbia (2016).

Love»em or hate»em, art fairs have in the last decade become the agora of the art world, a place where galleries, collectors, artists, art advisories, art fans, curators, and, increasingly, art critics meet to discuss business, trends, and gripe about how awful art fairs are.

In the open spirit of the Roman forum or Greek agora, speakers discussed the issues of borders, identity and people's role in politics.

At first glance, the agora of Turbine Hall cuts against the grain of such digital collectivism.

Socrates went out into the agora, teaching a critical skepticism of the status of beliefs, criticizing established authority for dishonest action and concern for power.

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Instead of sitting in a lecture hall with people from the same country or even region, at best with a few Erasmus students present, the idea of studying and discussing EU law in a digital agora which unites people hailing from all corners of Europe can not fail to have considerable appeal.

Social media can often seem like a bit of a cacophony of blurbs and randomness, but it is really a forum, much like the agora, or marketplace, in ancient Greece — a place to share ideas and connect with friends and peers, and businesses.

Don Tapscott also explores the related concept of «idea agoras» (or idea markets) in the Wikinomics book; and also in the book Digital Capital.

Don and his co-authors talk about the markets (or agoras) that exist in various organizations and suggest ways we can harness these in the new knowledge economy.

Visit AILA AGORA, the organization's online marketplace, to download a variety of content including podcasts, audio seminars, and articles that are free to AILA student members.

is the bustling agora of the Web, capturing all of life's hilarious moments, compiling helpful tutorials and trending news.

Cute animals, kids saying the silliest things, talk show clips, comedy sketches and fitness instructionals: YouTube is the bustling agora of the Web, capturing all of life's hilarious moments, compiling helpful tutorials and trending news.