bouleuterion

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek βουλευτήριον (bouleutḗrion).

bouleuterion (plural bouleuteria)

1. (architecture, historical) A building in Ancient Greece, housing the boule (council of citizens), where public affairs were discussed.
   • 1994, Mogens Herman Hansen, From Political Architecture to Stephanus Byzantius: Sources for the Ancient Greek Polis, Franz Steiner Verlag, →ISBN, page 38:

     […] we print here an updated and revised list of bouleuteria, some attested only in written sources, some physically preserved.⁶³ In most cases, however, the identification of a building as a bouleuterion is uncertain.

   • 1995, Michel Troper, Mikael M. Karlsson, Law, Justice and the State: Proceedings of the 16. World Congress of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy: Reykjavík, 26 May - 2 June, 1993, page 135:

     The "Old Bouleuterion", whether it was built before or after the Persian sack of Athens,³ certainly antedates the New Bouleuterion.

   • 2006, Frederick E. Winter, Studies in Hellenistic Architecture, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 142:

     The history of the bouleuterion as a distinct architectural form seems to begin in late Archaic Athens, where the first Bouleuterion was perhaps built soon after the constitutional reforms of Kleisthenes.

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