Definitions for pnyx

pnyx Pnyx

Spelling: [niks, puh-niks]
IPA: /nɪks, pə nɪks/

Pnyx is a 4 letter English word.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in pnyx (npxy).

Definitions for pnyx

noun

  1. a hill in Athens, Greece, near the Acropolis: the place of assembly in ancient Athens.

Examples for pnyx

Alcibiades stood again on the orator's platform in the Pnyx.

Towards the north-west is the Pnyx, a sloping hill, partially levelled into an open area for political assemblies.

In the centre the rock projects into a platform about eight or ten feet square, which forms the Pnyx or pulpit for the orator.

The Scythian police who kept order in the Pnyx could procure him no audience.

That the beginning of the play is on the Pnyx, there is no question.

I was on the Pnyx; had been rambling about there the whole afternoon.

Pnyx, niks, n. in ancient Athens, the public place of meeting for deliberation on political affairs: the assembly.

We stood on this Pnyx, beyond doubt on the same spot where Demosthenes thundered his philippics in the ears of the Athenians.

Immediately on the return of Alkibiades, the people assembled in the Pnyx, where he addressed them.

None but they mingled in the assemblages of great men at the Pnyx or the Stoa.

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