Pnyx
Sign in to saveThe Pnyx (; ; , Pnyka) is a hill or hillside in central Athens, the capital of Greece. Beginning as early as 507 BC (Fifth-century Athens), the Athenians gathered on the Pnyx to host their popular assemblies, thus making the hill one of the earliest and most important sites in the creation of democracy.
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Pnyx
- Ancient site.native_name
- Πνύκα
- Ancient site.image
- Pnyx Bema 2.jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- Pnyx speaker's platform
- Ancient site.map_caption
- Location of the Pnyx on a map of Athens
- Ancient site.map_type
- Greece Athens central
- Ancient site.location
- Athens, Greece
- Ancient site.region
- Attica
- Ancient site.built
- 507 BC
- Ancient site.epochs
- Fifth-century Athens
- Ancient site.cultures
- Ancient Greece
- Ancient site.condition
- Ruined
- Ancient site.ownership
- Public property
- Ancient site.management
- Ministry of Culture
- Ancient site.public_access
- No
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- Historical significance
- The area
- Early history and phases
- Athenian democracy
- Excavations
- References
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The Pnyx (; ; , Pnyka) is a hill or hillside in central Athens, the capital of Greece. Beginning as early as 507 BC (Fifth-century Athens), the Athenians gathered on the Pnyx to host their popular assemblies, thus making the hill one of the earliest and most important sites in the creation of democracy.
The Pnyx is located less than west of the Acropolis and about 2 km south-west of the Syntagma Square in the centre of Athens. The "mainly natural hollow" was first used from before 500 BC to perhaps 404 BC, when the arrangement was changed by adding a retaining wall below the speakers' platform, with the space between filled with earth.