- A
prytaneion (Ancient Gr****: Πρυτανεῖον, Latin:
prytanēum) was seat of the
prytaneis (executive), and so the seat of
government in
ancient Greece. The...
- at
every domestic sacrifice. In the
public domain, the
hearth of the
prytaneum functioned as her
official sanctuary.
Whenever a new
colony was established...
- "Instructions to
Colonel Benedict Arnold"
George Henry Moore (1886).
Prytaneum Bostoniense:
Notes on the
History of the Old
State House,
Formerly Known...
- together. The King
occupied the
building now
known as the Boculium, near the
Prytaneum, as may be seen from the fact that even to the
present day the marriage...
- of Athens; that he
should be
given free meals, in perpetuity, at the
Prytaneum, the
public dining hall of Athens.
Receiving such
public largesse is an...
-
Prytaneum Court in London,
formerly Southgate Town Hall,
doubled as
Cowley police station...
-
Gardens Press,
Dawes Arboretum, Newark, Ohio, 1976. Moore,
George Henry.
Prytaneum Bostoniense:
Notes on the
History of the Old
State House, pp. 27–28, Upham...
- acquittal,
Socrates joked that he be
punished with free
meals at the
Prytaneum (the city's
sacred hearth), an
honour usually held for a
benefactor of...
- From this time, the
kolakretai had only to
provide for the
meals in the
Prytaneum, and
subsequently had
likewise to pay the fees to the dikastes, when the...
- exceptional, as
Hestia normally did not have
temples but was
worshipped in the
prytaneum of each city, and a
sanctuary of the
goddess was
therefore something highly...
