prytanes

The prytanes were a group who acted as a standing committee for both the council and the assembly during the tenth of the year when it was their tribe’s turn “to preside”; see note at 6.14.1a and Appendix A, The Athenian Government, ©5.

THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

The prytanes were a group who acted as a standing committee for both the council and the assembly during the tenth of the year when it was their tribe’s turn “to preside”; see note at 6.14.1a and Appendix A, The Athenian Government, ©5.

THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

The prytanes were of the tribe Acamantis, Phaenippus was the registrar, Niciades was the president.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

At Athens the senate and the home magistrates shall swear, and the prytanes shall administer the oath; at Argos the senate and the council of eighty and the artynae shall swear, and the eighty shall administer the oath; at Mantinea the demiurgi and the senate and the other magistrates shall swear, and the theori and the polemarchs shall administer the oath.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

The generals and prytanes shall proceed to hold another assembly, at which the people shall discuss, first of all, the question of peace, whatever proposal the Lacedaemonian embassy may offer about the termination of the war.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Let the defence of the city be commited to the generals, and taxiarchs, and hipparchs, and phylarchs, and prytanes, and the wardens of the city, and of the agora, when the election of them has been completed.

Laws 2006

Until the prytanes and council are elected, the guardians of the law shall convene the assembly in some holy spot which is suitable to the purpose, placing the hoplites by themselves, and the cavalry by themselves, and in a third division all the rest of the army.

Laws 2006

To this end all the magistrates, with the exception of the council and prytanes, shall go to the temple of Apollo, and elect by ballot him of the guardians of the law whom they severally think will be the best superintendent of education.

Laws 2006

That the generals and prytanes should call an assembly of the people, in which the Athenians should first consult on the peace, and on the mode in which the embassy for putting an end to the war should be admitted.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

Prytany, prytanes plural; see Appendix A, The Athenian Government, ©5.

THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003