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Sentence Examples
Not only is there the amphictyonic aspect already noted, but there is evidence in Diodorus Siculus, a Greek historian of the 1st century bce, though not in Thucydides, that Boeotia was a target.
Alexander stopped at Thermopylae, where he was recognized as the leader of the Amphictyonic League before heading south to Corinth.
Examples from Classical Literature
The creed that became the successor of the religion of Delphi found a mightier amphictyonic assembly in the conclaves of Rome.
But if not efficient in good, the amphictyonic council was not active in evil.
Now, let us consider this special significance of the amphictyonic Council.
And on this account the Scyrians were formerly condemned by the amphictyonic council.
The amphictyonic council was certainly not a states-general, in which all national affairs were discussed.
This passage places in an extremely clear light the relative position of the Games and the amphictyonic Assembly.
We should almost as soon expect to see an amphictyonic council to regulate the affairs of the whole globe.
Each city in the twelve amphictyonic tribes, the most unimportant as the most powerful, had the same number of votes.
There was a great Greek council, centuries old, called the amphictyonic.
