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bouleuterion

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bouleuterion
1. In ancient Greece, a place of assembly, esp. for a public body.
2. In modern Greece, a chamber for the sitting of a legislative body or the building in which such a chamber is situated.
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Teachers of ancient history through the medium of English will be interested in Neville Morley's chapter on how translators have tried to deal with Greek terms for which there are no precise modern equivalents, words such as agora, bouleuterion, banausoi, dikaiosyne, dokimasia and so on.
Alexandra Lianeri & Vanda Zajko (edd.), Translation and the Classic. ... by Whitaker, Richard / Acta Classica
The existence of the Agora in Dedros cannot be discerned until the beginning of the 7th century BC, and the first public building is the bouleuterion of the Olympian sanctuary, dated around 600 BC (Strom 1984: 357).
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