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of Athens, though in practice many meetings were mandatory and evidence suggests that persuasive individuals could enjoin the prytaneis to call or not to call a supplementary meeting. The prytaneis received ambassadors from foreign states and generally conducted the day-to-day business of the state.
166:, the current foreman also chaired these meetings. In the Fourth Century, this practice changed and the chairmanship of meetings was taken over by an office specifically created for this task (the πρόεδροι 117:, so that ten groups of prytaneis served each year, a position granted by sortition. The executive officers were known as prytaneis and their term of office as a prytany (πρυτανία). 113:
created ten new tribes and made the boule consist of 50 men from each of these tribes. Each tribe's delegation would be an executive of the boule for
155:. No man was allowed to hold this office more than once, and so probably more than half of all adult male Athenians held it, at one time or another. 151:, "caretaker"). He administered the state seal and the keys to the state treasuries and archives. He was, in effect, the chief executive officer of 278: 236: 303: 193:. Offices that use this title usually have responsibility for presiding over councils of some kind. In the city of Miletus, the 109:, or council, of 400 with a new boule of 500. The old boule consisted of 100 members of each of the four ancestral tribes. 298: 147:
Each day, for one 24-hour period, one member of the 50 prytaneis was selected by lot to serve as the foreman (ἐπιστάτης
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served every day during their prytany. They formally called to meeting the full
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as a title is used in other ancient Greek cities including
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Prytanes
Prytanis (king of Sparta)
Prytanis (mythology)
boule
ancient Athens
basileus
tyrannos
Pre-Greek
Etruscan
Cleisthenes
Athenian
Solonian
boule
Cleisthenes
one-tenth of the year
boule
ecclesia
tholos
Athens
Rhodes
Alexandria
Asia Minor
Beekes, Robert
Etymological Dictionary of Greek
Brill Publishers
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9789004174184
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