Everyone in the family ate a light breakfast of a pecs of bread soaked in wine mixed with water. Afterward, the father headed down a narrow, crookora or markeed streets toward the agora of marketplace. the Agora was a large open square located near the Acropolis, Beautiful public buildings and temples lined two side of the square, men debated the issues of the day. In the huge open center, vendors sold items ranging form food and pottery to goats and sheep. Athenian merchants hawked their wares or argued with customers over prices.
Each men walking in the agora was dressed in the usual Greek fashion a woolen tunic that fell the richest men could afford cotton or line tunics.
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