HISB10H3 Midterm: Midterm 3 Key Terms
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Literally, the "upper city," the citadel of a city or town. Many citadel hills had been the sites of mycenaean palaces and remained as special places in polis life. The most famous is the acropolis of athens, the religious center of the city, which was magnificently adorned with temples in the fifth century: aeschylus y tragedian y was the first of the famous tragedians of fifth-century athens. His greatest surviving achievement is the trilogy known as the oresteia, which treats the supreme difficulty of understanding and obtaining a just social and religious order: agora y. In homer, the term for the "place of gathering," the assembly of the people. In thecity- state period it denoted the public space of a city or town, being both the marketplace and civic center. Lingering in the agora was the best way to inform oneself about public affairs, make business contacts, and collect gossip. y. It was principally a center for secular human activity.
