- A
prytaneion (Ancient Gr****: Πρυτανεῖον, Latin: prytanēum) was seat of the
prytaneis (executive), and so the seat of
government in
ancient Greece. The...
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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...
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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...
- the Deipnosophistae,
writes that in
Naucratis the
people dined in the
Prytaneion on the
birthday of
Hestia Prytanitis.
Responsibility for Hestia's domestic...
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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...
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firstly the
political district,
which consisted of the
bouleuterion and the
prytaneion; the
cultural district containing the theatre; the commercial,
where the...
- The
hearth of
every prytaneion and
domestic household was
sacred to the
goddess Hestia,
whose presence and cult
within the
prytaneion and
households justified...
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temenos at
Olympia were the
Iarchaic structures: "the
temple of Hohepa, the
Prytaneion, the Bouleuterion, the
treasuries and the
first stadium." Hennemeyer,...
- This
ceremony seems to have
taken place at the Boukoleion, near the
Prytaneion. Most
scholars consider that this
would have
happened on the
second day...
