Definition of Phratries. Meaning of Phratries. Synonyms of Phratries

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Definition of Phratries

Phratries
Phratry Phra"try, n.; pl. Phratries. [Gr. ?, ?.] (Gr. Antiq.) A subdivision of a phyle, or tribe, in Athens.

Meaning of Phratries from wikipedia

- mean phratries were as large as 1,000 adult males per phratry or as small as 140 adult males per phratry. It is also likely that different phratries were...
- upon common female ancestors. Clans were organized into three distinct phratries identified by their animal sign: Turtle, Turkey, and Wolf. They first...
- po****tion grew to a certain point, families joined into phratries. Further growth caused phratries to join into tribes, and then tribes into a city. In the...
- weakened the gene, or aristocratic family groups, that had dominated the phratries. A deme functioned to some degree as a polis in miniature, and indeed...
- treatment. At Athens there is the temple of Athena Phratria, as patron of a phratry, in the Ancient Agora of Athens. Athena's epithet Pallas – her most renowned...
- Chinese, Irish, ****anese, Polish, Scottish, Tlingit, and Somali societies. A phratry is a descent group composed of three or more clans each of whose apical...
- the Thessalian festival of Peloria. Phratrios (Φράτριος), as patron of a phratry Philios (Φιλιος; "of Friendship") or Latinized Philius Phyxios (Φυξιος;...
- In ancient times the tribe of Khuzā’ah was subdivided into a number of phratries (buṭūn): Banū Kalb bin 'Amr Banū Salūl bin 'Amr Banū Ḥabshah bin Salūl...
- The phratries also impose some restrictions on marriage. Couples violating these restrictions must sacrifice a buffalo, though violating phratry restrictions...
- several cities Poseidon was worshipped in relation to the genealogy and the phratry. At Tinos he was worshipped as a healer-god, probably a forerunner of the...