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Definition of Prytaneum
1. n. A public building in certain Greek cities; especially, a public hall in Athens regarded as the home of the community, in which official hospitality was extended to distinguished citizens and strangers.
Definition of Prytaneum
1. Noun. The town hall in an ancient Greek city. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prytaneum
1. an ancient Greek town hall [n PRYTANEA]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prytaneum
Literary usage of Prytaneum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1885)
"Every Greek state had its prytaneum which may be described as the town-hall of
... None but capital cities had a prytaneum. Hence when the king of Athens ..."
2. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities by William Smith (1891)
"At Athens it is probable that there were several changes in the position of the
prytaneum before the building which Pausanias knew by that name under the ..."
3. Pausanias's Description of Greece by Pausanias, James George Frazer (1898)
"taneum of Athens was the prytaneum of Attica (Thucydides, ii. ... The essential
feature of the prytaneum was its hearth, which was regarded and spoken of as ..."
4. Travels in Asia Minor and Greece by Richard Chandler, Nicholas Revett (1825)
"PAUSANIAS returns again into the city, and begins from the prytaneum, keeping
the Acropolis on his right hand nearer than before; a street called the ..."
5. The Monuments of Athens: An Historical and Archaeological Description by Panagiotes G. Kastromenos, Agnes Smith Lewis (1884)
"Here ambassadors and distinguished citizens feasted,* here were kept the laws of
Solon, f and here was the court called the prytaneum, where cases about ..."
6. The Description of Greece by Pausanias (1824)
"The Eleans likewise have a banqueting place within the prytaneum, opposite to
that building which contains the Vestal hearth: and in this banqueting place ..."
7. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"... Christians—The Two were Friends — Payment of Tribute—Paschal Canon says Origen
was a Brazier—Defiant Comparisons of Celsus—The prytaneum—How the Church ..."
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