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[Agora Publication Page] Agora 3, s. 266, p. 256

Philitia, at Sparta. Pompeion. Philokrates, ambassador. Poplar, "view from". Philokrates, charioteer. Philokrates, poulterer. Porneia. Philonides of Laodikeia. Portraits. Philosophers. Poseidon. Philosophy, ... Agora 3 256 ... Praxiteles ... Praxiteles' sons

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: Democracy

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Introduction Classical Athens saw the rise of an achievement unparalleled in history. Perikles, Aischylos, Sophokles, Plato, Demosthenes, and Praxiteles represent just a few of the statesmen and philosophers, ... Perikles, Aischylos, Sophokles, Plato, Demosthenes, and Praxiteles represent just a few of the statesmen and philosophers, playwrights and orators, historians and artists who flourished there in the 5th and 4th centuries B.C., when Athens numbered among the most powerful and influential city-states in Greece. ... The Agora seems to have been laid out as a public area late in the 6th century B.C., presumably under the tyrant Peisistratos and his sons. In 500 B.C., soon after the Kleisthenic reforms, new buildings were added.