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Modern Description: Just uphill from the Tholos was the Bouleuterion, meeting place of the boule, or senate. Five hundred Athenian citizens were chosen by lot to serve for a year, and met in this building every day except during festivals to prepare legislation for the meetings of the ekklesia (assembly of all citizens), which met at the Pnyx every ten days. The remains are in a miserable state of preservation, with only the outlines of walls discernible in trenches sunk into bedrock. The building dates to the last quarter of the 5th century B.C., replacing an earlier version dating to ca. 500 B.C. that lies under the Metroon.
[Judith Binder: Bouleuterion: 3) “Old Bouleuterion”, built after 479 B.C., in which the state cult of the Mother of the Gods was incorporated ca. 410-400 B.C.: Agora_III, 128-137; Athenian Agora 1986, 52-53, figs. 32-33, 27-31; T. L. Shear, Jr., “The Persian Destruction of Athens: Evidence from Agora Deposits,” Hesperia 62 (1993) 418-427, figs. 1-4; Shear Jr., T. L., 1995, 15-171, figs. 1-5; [implausibly] restored as an early octastyle temple of the Mother of the Gods, Miller, S. G. 1995, 133-156, figs. 1-6; [the Old Bouleuterion” continued functioning as the Council House (see Arist.Ath. 53.4) until ca. 140 B.C. when it was torn down to make way for the Metroon]]
Wikidata ID: Q38278350
Trismegistos Geo: 364

Info: Agora Excavations

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