bouleuterion

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English

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The bouleuterion of Priene
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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek βουλευτήριον (bouleutḗrion).

Noun

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bouleuterion (plural bouleuteria)

  1. (architecture, historical) A building in Ancient Greece, housing the boule (council of citizens), where public affairs were discussed.
    • 1994, Mogens Herman Hansen, From Political Architecture to Stephanus Byzantius: Sources for the Ancient Greek Polis, Franz Steiner Verlag, →ISBN, page 38:
      [] we print here an updated and revised list of bouleuteria, some attested only in written sources, some physically preserved.63 In most cases, however, the identification of a building as a bouleuterion is uncertain.
    • 1995, Michel Troper, Mikael M. Karlsson, Law, Justice and the State: Proceedings of the 16. World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy: Reykjavík, 26 May - 2 June, 1993, page 135:
      The "Old Bouleuterion", whether it was built before or after the Persian sack of Athens,3 certainly antedates the New Bouleuterion.
    • 2006, Frederick E. Winter, Studies in Hellenistic Architecture, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 142:
      The history of the bouleuterion as a distinct architectural form seems to begin in late Archaic Athens, where the first Bouleuterion was perhaps built soon after the constitutional reforms of Kleisthenes.

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