Definition of Ephor. Meaning of Ephor. Synonyms of Ephor

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Ephoral
Ephoral Eph"or*al, a. Pertaining to an ephor.
Ephoralty
Ephoralty Eph"or*al*ty, n. The office of an ephor, or the body of ephors.

Meaning of Ephor from wikipedia

- The ephors were a board of five magistrates in ancient Sparta. They had an extensive range of judicial, religious, legislative, and military powers, and...
- In Greece, ephor (Gr****: έφορος, romanized: ephoros, lit. 'overseer') is a title given to the head of an archaeological ephorate (Gr****: εφορεία, romanized: ephoria)...
- was an old man in the 52nd Olympiad (572 BC), and that he was elected an ephor (overseer) in Sparta in the 56th Olympiad (556/5 BC). Alcidamas states that...
- well as archaeological discoveries on his native island of Kephallonia. As Ephor General (the head of the Gr**** Archaeological Service) from 1885 until 1909...
- October] 1863) was a Gr**** archaeologist. He was the first Gr**** to serve as Ephor General of Antiquities, the head of the Gr**** Archaeological Service, in...
- proposed it.). Civil cases were decided by the ephors, and criminal jurisdiction had been p****ed to the ephors, as well as to a council of elders. By 500...
- early years of archaeology in the independent Kingdom of Greece, serving as Ephor General of Antiquities between 1834 and 1836. As a representative of the...
- were eligible both to vote and to hold public office, date back to the Ephors of Sparta in 754 BC, under the mixed government of the Spartan Constitution...
- The Society of Ephors, or Société des Ep****s, was a late 19th-century French political group established in the aftermath of the defeat of the Second...
- to declare war and was accompanied in the field by two ephors. He was supplanted by the ephors also in the control of foreign policy. Over time, the kings...