Amphictyonic Council · Atlas

in the texts

On the False EmbassyClassical · Greek

Interstate religious council invoked in the handling of the temple and Phocian settlement.

Then Philocrates, taking advantage of your ready acceptance of Aeschines’ words, inserts in the decree a clause providing that, if the Phocians should not do what was right and give up the temple to the Amphictyonic Council, the Athenian people should send a force to coerce the recalcitrants.

on the false embassy ¶

Now give me our treaty with the Phocians, and the Amphictyonic decrees, under which they dismantled their defences.

on the false embassy ¶

He makes no such proposal as that the Amphictyonic Council should be convened, or that operations should be suspended until it meets, or that Proxenus should march against the Phocians, or that the Athenians should take the field.

on the false embassy ¶

On the CrownClassical · Greek

Panhellenic religious-political body whose resolutions authorize action over the sacred territory.

In the priesthood of Cleinagoras, at the spring session, it was resolved by the Wardens, Assessors, and General Synod that whereas the Amphissians who have occupied the sacred territory are tilling and grazing the same, and, when forbidden to do so, have appeared in arms and resisted the common assembly of the Greeks by force, and have actually wounded some of them, the general appointed by some o …

on the crown ¶

In the priesthood of Cleinagoras, at the spring session, it was resolved by the Wardens and the Assessors of the Amphictyons, and by the General Synod of the Amphictyons, that, whereas Amphissians are encroaching upon the sacred territory and are sowing and grazing the same, the Wardens and Assessors shall attend and mark out the boundaries with pillars, and shall forbid the Amphissians hereafter to encroach.

on the crown ¶

he sets to work—and observe how cleverly he managed it—to throw the Pylaean Congress into confusion and to implicate the Amphictyonic Council in warfare, feeling certain that they would immediately beg him to deal with the situation.

on the crown ¶

The Rights of War and PeaceRenaissance · English

A council of Greek states cited as the body in which political succession is illustrated.

Thus in the Amphictyonic council, Philip of Macedon succeeded to the place of the Phocensians.

ch. 15 ¶

And on this account the Scyrians were formerly condemned by the Amphictyonic council.

ch. 22 ¶

Answer to Philip’s LetterClassical · Greek

A Greek council whose membership or influence Philip has acquired suspiciously.

The Thebans suspect him, because he keeps a garrison at Nicaea and has stolen into the Amphictyonic Council, and because he attracts to his court the embassies of the Peloponnesian powers and secures their allies for himself.

answer to philip’s letter ¶

On the PeaceClassical · Greek

The Greek religious-political council connected with Thermopylae and Delphi.

and if the Thessalians dislike us because we protect the Phocian fugitives, and Philip because we are trying to exclude him from the Amphictyonic Council;

on the peace ¶

but they were anxious to control the council at Thermopylae and the Delphian temple —two clear gains for them;

on the peace ¶