Pnyx by Brooke Childers

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Pnyxby Brooke Childers
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The Assembly

• Anyone addressing the Assembly must keep to
  the matter at hand, must not deal with two
  separate matters together, and must not speak
  twice on the same matter at any one meeting. He
  must not engage in slanders or scurrility or
  interrupt others
• - Aeschines, Against Timarchus 1.35

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First Phase
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Second Phase
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Third Phase
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excavation

• Began in 1910 by the Greek Archaeological Society
• Continued until 1937 by Homer Thompson

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Painting by Phillip von Foltz (1853)
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Bibliography

• Allen, James T. "Aristophanes and the Pnyx."
  University of California Publications in
  Classical Philology. Berkeley Unversity of
  California P, 1936. 26-34.
• Camp, John M. The Archaeology of Athens. New
  Haven Yale University Press, 2001. 46, 132, 264.
• Glowacki, Kevin T. "The Pnyx." The Ancient City
  of Athens. The Stoa Consortium. 1 Feb. 2008
  lthttp//www.stoa.org/athens/sites/pnyx.htmlgt.
• Kourouniotes, K. H. Thompson, The Pnyx in
  Athens, Hesperia 1 (1932) 90-192.
• Thorley, John. Athenian Democracy. London
  Routledge, 1996. 33-34.