[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: The Ekklesia

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The Ekklesia (Citizens' Assembly) All Athenian citizens had the right to attend and vote in the Ekklesia, a full popular assembly which met about every 10 days. All decrees (psephismata) were ratified ... Birth of Democracy: The Ekklesia

[Agora Webpage] AgoraPicBk 16 2003: Bouleuterion

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Bouleuterion 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 ... 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.

[Agora Webpage] Birth of Democracy: Marble Stele

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Law Against Tyranny In 338 B.C. Philip II of Macedon and his son Alexander defeated the Athenians and other Greek states in a battle at Chaironeia in central Greece. In the following year (337/6 B.C.) ... The law was inscribed on two stelai (stone markers) to be set up at the entrances of the Bouleuterion (senate house) and the ekklesia (assembly). ... The secretary of the Council shall inscribe this law on two stelai of stone and set one of them by the entrance into the Areopagos, that entrance, namely, near where one goes into the Bouleuterion, and the other in the Ekklesia. For the inscribing of the stelai the treasurer of the Demos shall give 20 drachmas from the moneys expendable by the Demos according to decrees.

[Agora Publication Page] Agora 3, s. 260, p. 250

Cooks. Dionysios, tilemaker. T. Coponius Maximus. Dionysios II of Syracuse. Copy clerk. Dionysos. Corinth. Council. Croesus. Dioskorion, at Pherai. Curse tablets. Dioskouroi. Customs duty. Dioteimos, archon ... Agora 3 250 ... Ekklesia