- History of calendars
calendar . This conciliar calendar divided the year into prytanies , one for each of the phylai , the subdivisions of Athenian citizens. The number of phylai, and hence the number of prytanies, varied ... more details
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- Battle of Arginusae
to a vote. The presiding officers of the assembly were the prytanies , randomly selected councilmen ..., one of the prytanies was appointed epistates , or president of the assembly. ref name ReferenceA ... more details
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- Attic calendar
at all to the phases of the moon. One likely arrangement is that the ten prytany prytanies were ... more details
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- Mytilenean revolt
s case asked the prytanies to call a meeting of the assembly, and those officials acquiesced. At that meeting ... more details
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- Pericles
As meetings of the assembly were called at the discretion of its rotating presidents, the prytanies ... by the prytanies was apparently sufficient to persuade them to do as he wished. ref name KaganPe69 ... more details
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- Athenian democracy
rotated monthly amongst the ten prytanies , or delegations from the ten Cleisthenes Cleisthenic ... more details
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