After the Persian wars, the predominance of Athens led to the transformation of the Delian amphictyony into the Athenian empire.
At the close of the Peloponnesian War the Spartans gave to the people of Delos the management of their own affairs; but the Athenian predominance was soon after restored, and survived an appeal to the amphictyony of Delphi in 345 B.
He took up the cause of the Delphic amphictyony against those sacrilegious Phocians, and so appeared as the champion of Hellenic religion.
A new and greater amphictyony, the amphictyony of Christendom, had come into the world, and it had been built by thousands of anonymous, faithful lives.
Among the Arab tribes there had long existed a sort of Amphictyony (see chap.
Then came a grave scandal, the breaking of the ancient customary truce of the Arab Amphictyony in the sacred month of Rahab.
The Delian amphictyony probably reached the height of its splendour early in the 7th century B.
At this time the amphictyony is known to have embraced both the Athenians and the inhabitants of the Cyclades; but a strong Delian party bitterly opposed Athenian rule (cf.
In addition to the three associations thus far mentioned there was an amphictyony of Onchestus (Strabo ix.
The word itself indicates that the association primarily comprised neighbours, though the Delphic amphictyony came in time to include relatively distant communities (Strabo ix.
An amphictyony of Corinth has, with less justification, been assumed on the strength of a passage in Pindar (Nem.
In the following century the Aetolians gained such dominance in the amphictyony as to convert the council into an organ of their league.
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 Amphictyonyin 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 oracle and the Amphictyony of Delphi were more potent than the other oracles and the other amphictyonies; but they never united the Greeks into a single nation.
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