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‖ pnyx|pnɪks|
[a. Gr. Πνύξ, gen. πυκνός, probably f. πυκνός packed, crowded.]
Name of the public place of assembly in ancient Athens, a semicircular level cut out of the side of a little hill west of the Acropolis.
1822T. Mitchell Aristoph. I. 16 The pnyx was a public place, which derived its name from the number of stones with which it was filled. 1850J. Leitch tr. C. O. Müller's Anc. Art §289 (ed. 2) 320 The stage then certainly took the place of the simpler bema on the pnyx, which was in like manner constructed in the theatrical form. 1868Smith's Dict. Gr. & Rom. Antiq. 146/2 Afterwards they [the ἐκκλησίαι] were transferred to the Pnyx. |