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gerousia

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gerousia

In ancient Sparta, the council of elders, one of two chief organs of the Spartan state, the other being the apella. The gerousia prepared business submitted to the apella and had extensive judicial powers: it alone pronounced sentences of death or exile. Its 30 members, the gerontes (“elders”), including the two kings, were chosen for life by acclamation of the citizens from among candidates of age 60 or older.



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Moreover, the institutional language of the polls (ekklesia or assembly of free citizens, gerousia, etc.
Culture, society, and embedded religion in antiquity by Oakman, Douglas E. / Biblical Theology Bulletin
It may have been patterned after the Gerousia, a governing body of Sparta, and also resembled the Athenian Arcopagus.
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