Definition of Phylae. Meaning of Phylae. Synonyms of Phylae

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Definition of Phylae

Phylae
Phyle Phy"le, n.; pl. Phyl[ae]. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a body of men united by ties of blood or habitation.] A local division of the people in ancient Athens; a clan; a tribe.

Meaning of Phylae from wikipedia

- After this so called Period I that lasted until 307/306 BC, the system of Phylae had undergone few changes: in Period II (307/306 – 224/223 BC) two Macedonian...
- after Ptolemy's wife Berenice II of Egypt. In 201/200 BC the Macedonian Phylae were dissolved and the villages (except the two given to Ptolemais) went...
- Oracles, and Politics in Ancient Greece. With Two Appendices: The Ionian Phylae, the Phratries. New York, Cooper Square Publishers, 1972. Parke, Herbert...
- Kiosk of Emperor Trajan on Phylae Island before relocation...
- following personages: Leos, one of the ten or twelve Eponyms of the Attic phylae whose statues were at the Athenian agora near the Tholos. He was the son...
- various stages of this evolution were reflected in patrae, phratries and phylae, which were social organisations into which citizens were grouped in many...
- romanized: Hephaistiadai) was one of the demes, or townships of Acamantis, one of the ten phylae of Attica established by Cleisthenes at the end of the sixth century BC...
- ancient Attica, originally of the phyle of Antiochis, but later in the phylae of Antigonis (307/6 – 224/3 BCE) and Ptolemais (after 224/3 BCE). Its site...
- called the father of Minyas. He was credited with having founded two tribes (phylae), one of which received the name Cephisias after his possible father, and...
- twofold: first, language is an inherited cultural trait and thus the language phylae often correlate with genetic traits not the least to Y chromosome polymorphisms...