A prytaneion (Ancient Greek: 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...

diameter is 265 feet, and held about 6000 spectators. The Bouleuterion or prytaneion is well-preserved and has been further restored. It was the capital's...

The hearth of every prytaneion and domestic household was sacred to the goddess Hestia, whose presence and cult within the prytaneion and households justified...

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...

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: Greek...

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...

around Greece and its former colonies. It should not be confused with the Prytaneion, which housed the executive council of the assembly and often served as...

Pantikapaion Παντικάπαιον (in Ancient Greek) The prytaneion of Pantikapaion, second century BC. Kerch's Obelisk of Glory is visible in the background....

temenos at Olympia were the Iarchaic structures: "the temple of Hohepa, the Prytaneion, the Bouleuterion, the treasuries and the first stadium." Hennemeyer,...

constructed two buildings - the Bouleuterion and the Prytaneion - though only remains of the Prytaneion are still present. It is of special notice that even...

needs of Greek cultural institutions. These new buildings included a prytaneion, gymnasion, theater, hippodrome, as well as the massive Temple of Artemis...

revealed the theatre, the Artemis temple, the agora, the Zeus temple and the prytaneion. Excavations were resumed at the site, after an interval of almost 100 years...

The eastern chamber of the prytaneion...

not included in those athletes that were entitled to free meals in the [Prytaneion] (IG I3 131). Polybius, Histories 2.12.8. Polybius, Histories 18.46. "Appian...

members of the prytaneis on duty were housed and fed in the tholos of the Prytaneion, a building adjacent to the bouleuterion, where the boule met. A chairman...

in easing labor is Lucina ("of the light"). Pausanias noted: [Near the Prytaneion or Town Hall of Athens] is a temple of Eileithyia, who they say came from...

the Deipnosophistae, he writes that in Naucratis the people dine in the Prytaneion on the natal day of the Hestia Prytanitis (Ancient Greek: Ἑστίας Πρυτανίτιδος)...

The prytaneion of Panticapaeum, second century BC....

683 BC the archonship was limited to one year. Archons resided in the Prytaneion. Category:Eponymous archons Timeline of ancient Greece Regnal name Archon...

peristyle complex in the Agora of Athens, which may have been the city's Prytaneion. In 1926, he excavated a medieval cemetery in Thebes, making in the process...

citizens. Included in the civic honors were free meals at the town hall or prytaneion and front row seats at festivals such as the Lenaia and City Dionysia...

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...

or cylinders attached to a series of axles that stood upright in the Prytaneion. Originally the axones recorded laws enacted by Draco in the late 7th...

magistracies. According to Thucydides, Theseus founded a new central Prytaneion, an important building with governing administrative duties, in Athens...

circular hall. It may also have functioned as their debating chamber or prytaneion. It was about 60 feet across, and built around 470 BC. Inside six columns...

Hippodrome Mausoleum Monopteros Neorion Palaestra Peribolos Propylaea Prostyle Prytaneion Pteron Rostral column Stadium Stoa – List of stoae Tholos Ancient Roman...

provocatively proposing, as a just "punishment", to be hosted at the Prytaneion as a worthy citizen, and accepting the verdict of his judges. He also...

structures, it has been suggested by them that this whole complex comprised a Prytaneion, serving visitors to the town, outside the principal enceinte. Those Albanian...