- one account, he was the
ruler of Locris. The name of
Amphictyon is a back-formation from
Amphictyons, plural, from
Latin Amphictyones, from Gr**** Amphiktyones...
-
Pythian Games were held
every four years,
under the
direction of the
Amphictyons. In 449-448 the Phocians,
wanting to
become masters of the sanctuary...
- the
amphictyons,
fixed the
towns which were to take part in the council, gave to each its vote, and
settled the
jurisdiction of the
amphictyons. Graves...
- with the
Amphictyons separately, and he now
faced an army at
least equal in size to his own. He
therefore decided to
retreat before the
Amphictyons could...
-
titles and a few
fragments of his
plays survive. One of his
plays was The
Amphictyons, in
which Telecleides presented a
Golden Age of
impossibly effortless...
- were
defeated at the
Battle of Salamis. He then fled to Thessaly; the
Amphictyons at
Pylae had
offered a
reward for his death.
According to Herodotus,...
- to
their deaths off a cliff. When he grew up,
Erichthonius drove out
Amphictyon, who had
usurped the
throne from
Cranaus twelve years earlier, and became...
-
against which the
vengeance of the
Amphictyons was directed. The
spoils of
Cirrha were emplo**** by the
Amphictyons in
founding the
Pythian Games. Near...
- absconding. In
gratitude for the
heroism shown by
Hydna and her father, the
Amphictyons dedicated statues to them at Delphi, the most
sacred site of the Gr****...
- had at
least two children, ****en and Protogenea, and
possibly a third,
Amphictyon (who is
autochthonous in
other traditions).
Their children as apparently...
