Amphictyonic Definition

Amphictyonic Sentence Examples

• Thus their influence at Delphi was restricted to the possession of two votes in the Amphictyonic Council.

• In return for this negligence the Thebans fastened a religious quarrel upon their neighbours, and secured a penal decree against them from the Amphictyonic synod (356).

• An amphictyonic league, meeting in common rites at the temple of Hera on the Lacinian promontory, fostered a feeling of unity among them.

• In 339, as one of the Athenian deputies (pylagorae) in the Amphictyonic Council, he made a speech which brought about the Sacred War.

• The pretext was the contumacy shown by the Locrian town Amphissa to the rulings of the Amphictyonic Council.