- Look up
amphictyony in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In
Archaic Greece, an
amphictyony (‹See Tfd›Gr****: ἀμφικτυονία, a "league of neighbors"), or Amphictyonic...
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important Temple of
Demeter Amphictyonis, an
early center of the
Anthelan Amphictyony. The land is
dominated by the
coastal floodplain of the
Spercheios river...
- Euripides,
Acrisius was the
founder of the
Delphic amphictyony.
Strabo believes that this
amphictyony existed before the time of Acrisius, and that he was...
- a
religious alliance (
amphictyony) to
which the
Cyclades and the
neighboring Ionians on the
coasts belonged. This
amphictyony seems originally to have...
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early amphictyony, one of
several ****enic
leagues of pre-classical
times of
which little is known, was
centered on Kalaureia–the
Calaurian Amphictyony. Archaeology...
- when the
administration of the
Games was
handed over to the
Delphic Amphictyony, a
council of
twelve Gr**** tribes, at the end of the
First Sacred War...
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around a
central sanctuary on the
lines of the
later Gr**** and
Italian amphictyonies. With
Gerhard von Rad he
pioneered the traditional-historical approach...
- of Kirrha. At the
beginning of the 6th
century BC the Pylaeo-Delphic
Amphictyony,
controlled by the Thessalians,
attempted to take hold of the Sacred...
- Tainaros.
Ancient historians stated that
Calauria was the
center of an
amphictyony, a
religious alliance between its city-state and
those of Athens, Poros...
- but a
Thessalian dependency, and had a seat of its own in the
Delphic Amphictyony. From 363 BC it came
under Boeotian control, but
split away
during the...
