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⭐ Core Definition: Boule (ancient Greece)

In cities of ancient Greece, the boule (Ancient Greek: βουλή; pl.: boulai, βουλαί) was a council (βουλευταί, bouleutai) appointed to run daily affairs of the city. Originally a council of nobles advising a king, boulai evolved according to the constitution of the city: In oligarchies boule positions might have been hereditary, while in democracies members were typically chosen by lot and served for one year. Little is known about the workings of many boulai, except in the case of Athens, for which extensive material has survived.

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👉 Boule (ancient Greece) in the context of Poros (deme)

Porus or Poros (Ancient Greek: Πόρος) was a deme of ancient Attica, originally of the phyle of Acamantis but after 307/6 BCE, of the phyle of Demetrias, sending three delegates to the Athenian Boule.

Its site is tentatively located near modern Metropisi.

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Boule (ancient Greece) in the context of Acharnae

Acharnae or Acharnai (/əˈkɑːr.n/; Ancient Greek: Ἀχαρναί) was a deme of ancient Athens. It was part of the phyle Oineis.

Acharnae, according to Thucydides, was the largest deme in Attica. In the fourth century BCE, 22 of the 500 members of the Athenian council came from Acharnae, more than from any other deme.

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Boule (ancient Greece) in the context of Bouleuterion

Bouleuterion (Ancient Greek: βουλευτήριον, bouleutērion), also translated as council house, assembly house, and senate house, was a building in ancient Greece which housed the council of citizens (βουλή, boulē) of a democratic city state. These representatives assembled at the bouleuterion to confer and decide about public affairs. There are several extant bouleuterion around Greece and its former colonies. It should not be confused with the Prytaneion, which housed the executive council of the assembly and often served as the boule's mess hall. The early bouleuterions were believed to have been originated from entertainment buildings as their architecture was similar to each bouleuterion. These buildings differed in size and structure as well as design.

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Boule (ancient Greece) in the context of Kleroterion

A kleroterion (Ancient Greek: κληρωτήριον, romanizedklērōtērion) was a randomization device used by the Athenian polis during the period of democracy to select citizens to the boule, to most state offices, to the nomothetai, and to court juries.

The kleroterion was a slab of stone incised with rows of slots and with an attached tube. Citizens' tokens—pinakia—were placed randomly in the slots so that every member of each of the tribes of Athens had their tokens placed in the same column. There was a pipe attached to the stone which could then be fed dice that were coloured differently (assumed to be black and white) and could be released individually by a mechanism that has not survived to posterity (but is speculated to be by two nails; one used to block the open end and another to separate the next die to fall from the rest of the dice above it, like an airlock.) When a die was released, a complete row of tokens (so, one citizen from each of the tribes of Athens) was either selected if the die was coloured one colour, or discarded if it was the alternate colour. This process continued until the requisite number of citizens was selected.

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Boule (ancient Greece) in the context of Erchia (deme)

Erchia or Erkhia (Ancient Greek: Ἐρχία; also spelled Ἔρχεια and Ἑρχιά) was a deme of ancient Attica, of the phyle of Aegeis, sending six or seven delegates to the Athenian Boule, but eleven delegates after 307/6 BCE. According to Stephanus of Byzantium, in Greek mythology, the name comes from an inhabitant of the deme who hosted Demeter.

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Boule (ancient Greece) in the context of Ionidai

Ionidae or Ionidai (Ancient Greek: Ἰωνίδαι) was a deme (suburb) in ancient Attica, of the phyle of Aegeis, sending two delegates to the Athenian Boule.

This deme, along with that of Cydantidae, venerated the kolokratai; these two demoi are the only known ones to venerate deities together.

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Boule (ancient Greece) in the context of Kydantidai

Cydantidae or Kydantidai (Ancient Greek: Κυδαντίδαι) was a deme in ancient Attica, originally of the phyle of Aegeis, after 224/3 BCE of the phyle of Ptolemais, sending one or two delegates to the Athenian Boule.

This deme, along with that of Ionidae, venerated the kolokratai; these two demoi were the only ones, as far as we know, to venerate deities together.

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Boule (ancient Greece) in the context of Myrrhinoutta

Myrrhinutta or Myrrinoutta (Ancient Greek: Μυρρινοῦττα) was a deme of ancient Attica, of the phyle of Aegeis, sending one delegate to the Athenian Boule.

Its site is located near modern Nea Makri.

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Boule (ancient Greece) in the context of Otryne

Otryne (Ancient Greek: Ὀτρύνη) was a deme of ancient Attica, of the phyle of Aegeis, sending one delegate to the Athenian Boule.

Its site is unlocated.

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