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Definition of Amphictyonies

Amphictyonies
Amphictyony Am*phic"ty*o*ny, n.; pl. Amphictyonies. [Gr. ?.] (Grecian Hist.) A league of states of ancient Greece; esp. the celebrated confederation known as the Amphictyonic Council. Its object was to maintain the common interests of Greece.

Meaning of Amphictyonies from wikipedia

- an amphictyony might survive as a form of religious organization enjoined to support specific temples or sacred places; traditional amphictyonies coordinated...
- the earliest legal code given at Sinai, with Moses as author, and the Amphictyony confederation as its setting (Albright 1939, 1949, Buber 1998, and others);...
- 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...
- early amphictyony, one of several ****enic leagues of pre-classical times of which little is known, was centered on Kalaureia–the Calaurian Amphictyony. Archaeology...
- around a central sanctuary on the lines of the later Gr**** and Italian amphictyonies. With Gerhard von Rad he pioneered the traditional-historical approach...
- Chaeroneans, dedicated this (image of) Plutarch, following the precepts of the Amphictyony" ("Δελφοὶ Χαιρωνεῦσιν ὁμοῦ Πλούταρχον ἔθηκαν | τοῖς Ἀμφικτυόνων δόγμασι...
- 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...
- a religious alliance (amphictyony) to which the Cyclades and the neighboring Ionians on the coasts belonged. This amphictyony seems originally to have...
- describing Midian as a "cultic collective" (German: Kultgenossenschaft) or an amphictyony, meaning "an ****ociation (German: Bund) of different tribes in the vicinity...