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ἐκκλησία — Thucydides 6.9.1 public assembly debating war

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SEMANTIC_USAGE_OCCURRENCEUSAGE_G1577_THUC_6_9_1
Curation State
CURATED
Release Introduced
v44
Language
Greek
Lemma
ἐκκλησία
Strong Id
G1577
Lemma Keys
[
    "ἐκκλησία",
    "G1577"
]
Evidence Layers
[
    {
        "id": "CLASSICAL_LITERARY",
        "role": "textual_corpus"
    }
]
Source Ids
[
    "SRC_PERSEUS_CANONICAL_GREEKLIT"
]
Source Reference
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.9.1
Source Url
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0199%3Abook%3D6%3Achapter%3D9%3Asection%3D1
Date Range
{
    "start_bce": 431,
    "end_bce": 400,
    "label": "late 5th century BCE composition",
    "certainty": "approximate"
}
Original Language
Greek
Attested Form
ἐκκλησία
Original Excerpt
ἡ μὲν ἐκκλησία ... ἥδε ξυνελέγη
Translation
{
    "text": "this assembly has been convened ...",
    "responsibility": "Berean Archive working translation",
    "alignment_note": "Short contextual translation for semantic classification; consult the cited edition for the full passage."
}
Semantic Domains
[
    {
        "id": "political_governmental",
        "role": "primary",
        "classification": "documented fact",
        "rationale": "The Athenian assembly is deliberating a public decision."
    },
    {
        "id": "military",
        "role": "secondary",
        "classification": "documented fact",
        "rationale": "The immediate subject is whether/how to send the Sicilian expedition and ships."
    },
    {
        "id": "civic_public_administration",
        "role": "secondary",
        "classification": "strong evidence",
        "rationale": "The gathering is an institutional citizen assembly."
    }
]
Evidence Strength
DIRECT_ATTESTATION
Context Summary
Nicias speaks in the Athenian assembly about the planned Sicilian expedition, providing direct classical evidence for a political/civic use.
Evidence Boundary
Classical political usage establishes part of the attested Greek semantic range; it does not automatically transfer that domain to a biblical occurrence.
Catalog Entity Id
ANCIENT_TEXT_THUCYDIDES_HISTORIES