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- A prytaneion (Ancient Gr****: Πρυτανεῖον, Latin: prytanēum) was seat of the prytaneis (executive), and so the seat of government in ancient Greece. The...
- devoted to the games. To the north of the sanctuary can be found the Prytaneion and the Philippeion, as well as the array of treasuries representing the...
- of the Agora. The Prytaneion, a round building close to the Bouleuterion, built c. 470 BC by Cimon, which served as the Prytaneion, in which the Prytaneis...
- offering or prayer, and she was venerated in each city's communal hearth, or prytaneion. She is a virgin goddess, who forever retains her chastity, and rejects...
- firstly the political district, which consisted of the bouleuterion and the prytaneion; the cultural district containing the theatre; the commercial, where the...
- the Deipnosophistae, writes that in Naucratis the people dined in the Prytaneion on the birthday of Hestia Prytanitis. Responsibility for Hestia's domestic...
- Olympia over the ages. Areas of note: 2: Prytaneion, 4: Temple of Hera, 5: Pelopion, 10: Stadium, 15: Temple of Zeus, 20: Gymnasium, 21: Palaestra, 26: Gr****...
- around Greece and its former colonies. It should not be confused with the Prytaneion, which housed the executive council of the ****embly and often served as...
- constructed two buildings - the Bouleuterion and the Prytaneion - though only remains of the Prytaneion are still present. It is of special notice that even...
- temenos at Olympia were the Iarchaic structures: "the temple of Hohepa, the Prytaneion, the Bouleuterion, the treasuries and the first stadium." Hennemeyer,...