Pnyx
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Macron gave that speech on the ancient Pnyx hill in Athens and delivered part of it in Greek.
From The Guardian • Jan. 19, 2018
The day after his speech on the Pnyx, there was a lunch with Greek intellectuals.
From The Guardian • Oct. 20, 2017
Each could present himself in the open-air assembly up on the Pnyx to raise issues for discussion or to vote.
From The Guardian • Oct. 17, 2010
Glaucon saw all in clear relief,—the Acropolis temple where he had prayed, the Pnyx and Areopagus, the green band of the olive groves, even the knoll of Colonus,—where he had left his all.
From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns
Whereupon if agony had held the Pnyx before, perplexity held it now.
From A Victor of Salamis by Davis, William Stearns
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