Definition of Phyles. Meaning of Phyles. Synonyms of Phyles

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Definition of Phyles

Phyle
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 Phyles from wikipedia

- sovereign enclaves affiliated or belonging to different phyles within a single metropolis. Most phyles depicted in the novel have a global scope of sovereignty...
- Phyle (Gr****: φυλή, romanized: phulē, lit. 'tribe, clan'; pl. phylai, φυλαί; derived from Gr**** φύεσθαι, phyesthai lit. 'to descend, to originate') is...
- Phyle (Ancient Gr****: Φυλή) was a strong fortress and deme of ancient Attica, on a steep rock, commanding the narrow p**** across Mount Parnes, through...
- The Battle of Phyle was fought between Athenian exiles who were s****ing to restore democracy to Athens and a Spartan garrison trying to protect the oligarchic...
- The Phyle Campaign (404–403 BC) was an Athenian civil war that resulted in the overthrow of a Spartan imposed oligarchy on Athens (see Thirty Tyrants)...
- suggests that the name Philistine represents a corruption of the Gr**** phyle-histia ('tribe of the hearth'), with the Ionic spelling of hestia. Stephanos...
- built a temple to Zeus Syllanius and Athene Syllania, and having 'phyled the phyles' (φυλάς φυλάξαντα) and 'obed the obes' (ώβάς ώβάξαντα) you shall establish...
- Diodotus (perhaps Diodotus the physician) Antiochis (tribe), an Athenian phyle, was named Antiochis after Antiochus a mythical Attic hero. Aristides "the...
- A group of Athenian exiles, led by Thrasybulus, seized Phyle in the 404 BC Battle of Phyle. They went on to defeat the Spartan garrison at the Battle...
- The Phyle Cave is a small cave on Mount Parnes near Fyli (Phyle), a suburb of Athens in Attica, Greece. In ancient Greece it was the site of a sanctuary...