10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRYTANEA»
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prytanea in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
prytanea and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Larcher's Notes on Herodotus: Historical and Critical ...
The fifty senators in office were called Prytanes," and the time during which they
exercised their functions, Prytanea ; there were ten" Prytaneee in each year,
agreeing with the number of the tribes. This is very clearly explained by Julius
Pollux.
Pierre Henri Larcher, 1829
2
Newton and the Origin of Civilization
your images”81—served as a demonstration that “Prytanea were used in ye
Cities of Canaan & Syria before the days of Moses.” Likewise, the altars that
Abraham and Jacob built, respectively, in Beersheba and Bethel, undoubtedly
indicated ...
Jed Z. Buchwald, Mordechai Feingold, 2013
3
Newton and Religion: Context, Nature, and Influence
Newton begins the second chapter of his English precis of the Origines, The
Original of Religions, by asserting that "the religion most ancient & most generally
received by the nations in the first ages [after the Flood] was that of the Prytanea
or ...
J.E. Force, R.H. Popkin, 1999
4
The public economy of Athens; to which is added, a ...
Pollux15' gives a more exact account ; one was chosen by lot by the senate in
every prytanea, for the purpose of keeping the writings and decrees, and is the
officer who prefixed his name to the decrees according to the form which was in
use ...
5
Origines kalendariæ Hellenicæ; or, The history of the ...
a public assembly of the people, four times in every prytanea, thrice in every
month at least), out of the senators furnished by the other tribes, distinct from that
one which was serving the office of Trpvr&vus, to appoint by lot some ten, to
preside ...
6
The Public Economy of Athens: In Four Books; to which is ...
the iEsitse, as one should rather have expected that he would only have had the
privilege of being fed in the Prytaneum for a single Prytanea; a fresh one was
appointed in every Prytanea, and the name of the clerk of the first Prytanea was ...
7
Larcher's notes on Herodotus, historical and critical ...
He has led into error two writers of the first merit, Scaliger ' and Father Petavius 5
; but Dodwell 6 has completely refuted them. The fifty senators in office were
called prytanes 7, and the time during which they exercised their functions,
prytanea ...
Pierre Henri Larcher, William Desborough Cooley, 1844
8
The Oration of Demosthenes Against the Law of Leptines. With ...
On the eleventh day of the first prytanea, the tenth of the first month
Hecatombaeon, (towards the middle of July) in the general assembly, after the
herald's customary prayer, let the Prytanes refer to the people questions of law,
and take their ...
9
Archæologia Græca: Or, The Antiquities of Greece
Suidas adds, that Arr«yj«^i is Sometimes taken for an action againll fach as
neither paid the fines laid upon them, before the ninth prytanea following their
fentence, nor were able to give iurficicnt fecurity to the city. i. Airifxe-ii, was
fometimes the ...
10
The Secret Life of Genius: How 24 Great Men and Women Were ...
Newton believed that “the religion most ancient and most generally received by
the nations in the first ages was that of the Prytanea or Vestal Temples. This was
spread over all nations until the first memory of things.”10 It was in part the ...
