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The Greek Assembly, also known as the ekklesia, was an assembly of adult male citizens. The Assembly acted as a type of court and had the ultimate decision making power in the Greek city-states.
That would be the Areopagus which the Apostle Paul visited and made his famous speech on the unknown god.
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Greece was a collection of hundreds of independent city-states. So there was no Greek assembly to make laws for Greece - each city made its own. For those states which had a democratic or quasi-democratic constitution, citizens would meet at a designated place which varied from a paddock to a square to a specific assembly arena, depending on the city and period.
An assembly is a meeting of the citizens. A council is a group who conduct state business in between the meetings of the assembly, and implement its decisions.
The assembly was large
It gave all power to the adult male citizens who met fortnightly in assembly to make laws and direct a council to carry out its wishes.