The Agora

The Agora: Dedicated to Ancient Ideals

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Welcome to The Agora, an out of the way corner of the WWW. Use the navigation links below to access The Agora's main topics. This site focuses on original texts, most of which are in the public domain.

Agora: An agora, translatable as marketplace, was a public space and an essential part of an ancient Greek polis or city-state. An agora acted as a marketplace and a forum to the citizens of the polis.

Agora also means a place of assembly in any Ancient Greek state. It is sometimes used in modern language to refer to a crossroads, either metaphorically (the point or concept which links, or is the crossroads of multiple related concepts), or literally, a point at which many physical roads or paths meet. (from Wikipedia)

At its most basic level, the agora was a meeting place. It was the original ideal from which public spaces arose. In modern English it refers to a crossroads. This site is a crossroads where East meets West, where pagan meets Christian, and where just governance meets anarchy. The Agora offers a broad range of free texts containing primary documents relating to the founding philosophies of both the East and the West.

The current sub-pages include:

General
Agorism
5 Essays

Western
Stoicism
Epicureanism
Skepticism
Early Christian

Eastern
Confucianism
Taoism
Mohism

Individuals
Tolstoy
Kropotkin
Mason