amphictyony 的定义
plural am·phic·ty·o·nies.
- any of the leagues of states, especially the league at Delphi, united for mutual protection and the worship of a common deity.
更多amphictyony例句
- Sometimes this tendency to religious fraternity took a form called an Amphictyony, different from the common festival.
- Thus there was an Amphictyony of seven cities at the holy island of Caluria, close to the harbor of Troezen.
- This later class of festivals agreed with the Amphictyony in being of a special and exclusive character, not open to all Greeks.
- It did not even prevent members of the Amphictyony fighting one another.
- The Panionium, the centre of a religious amphictyony, became for the moment the centre of a political league.