Odeum
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the Odeum
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1 expressionThe Odeum3 mentions
Against Phormio (Greek) · Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera (Greek) · Characters (Greek)
besides, he did this at a critical time, when those of you who dwelt in the city were having their barley-meal measured out to them in the Odeum, and those who dwelt in Peiraeus were receiving their loaves at an obol each in the dockyard and in the long-porch, having their meal measured out to them a gallon at a time, and being nearly trampled to death.
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On the Mysteries
Building from which Diocleides claimed men entered the orchestra.
As he was passing the gateway of the theatre of Dionysus, he noticed a large body of men coming down into the orchestra from the Odeum.
Against Phormio
A public building in Athens where city-dwellers had their barley-meal rations measured out during the grain shortage.
besides, he did this at a critical time, when those of you who dwelt in the city were having their barley-meal measured out to them in the Odeum, and those who dwelt in Peiraeus were receiving their loaves at an obol each in the dockyard and in the long-porch, having their meal measured out to them a gallon at a time, and being nearly trampled to death.
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera
Athenian building used as a court for suits regarding alimony (repayment of a wife's marriage portion), where Stephanus brought suit against Phrastor.
Stephanus brought suit for alimony against him in the Odeum in accordance with the law which enacts that, if a man puts away his wife, he must pay back the marriage portion or else pay interest on it at the rate of nine obols a month for each mina;
Characters
An Athenian concert hall mentioned by the garrulous man as a subject of idle trivia.
and how many columns there are in the Odeum;
Hellenica
A covered hall in Athens used as an assembly place, where the Eleusinians' condemnation is voted under armed guard and where cavalry are later quartered by the Ten.
Now the Laconian guardsmen were in one half of the Odeum, fully armed;
On the following day they summoned to the Odeum the hoplites who were on the roll and the cavalry also.
In fact, even the cavalry did guard duty by night, being quartered in the Odeum and keeping with them both their horses and their shields;