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Definition of Prytany

Prytany
Prytany Pryt"a*ny, n. [Gr. ?.] (Gr. Antiq.) The period during which the presidency of the senate belonged to the prytanes of the section.

Meaning of Prytany from wikipedia

- prytaneis and their term of office as a prytany (πρυτανία). The prytaneis served every day during their prytany. They formally called to meeting the full...
- tribes (and the prytanies), evidence shows that the month and the prytany were not coterminous and that, in general, the six first prytanies had 30 days and...
- the boule (the prytany) rotated between the tribe delegations and a new prytany was chosen every month by lot. The man in charge of prytany was replaced...
- euthyna and in addition there was a vote in the ekklesia during every prytany on the question whether they were performing their duties well. If the...
- their scheduling; rather, the respect in which Pericles was held by the prytanies was apparently sufficient to persuade them to do as he wished. While the...
- most magistracies and commissions underwent a review at the end of each prytany. Isocrates mentions a Nicomachus of Bate, who, in the same decade, served...
- deity, enemy of Apollo, who slew her and possessed the oracle. When the Prytanies' seat shines white in the island of Siphnos, White-browed all the forum—need...
- (by the name of the eponymous archon), the day of the month and of the prytany (or presiding commission according to tribes), various secretaries, the...
- respectively. Socrates belonged to this tribe. The tribe was in possession of the prytany in the Council, at the time of the events concerning the ten generals active...
- into "prytanies", one for each of the "phylai", the subdivisions of Athenian citizens. The number of phylai, and hence the number of prytanies, varied...