Amphictyonic Council
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On the False Embassy
Interstate religious council invoked in the handling of the temple and Phocian settlement.
(The Decrees of the Amphictyonic Council are read)
Now give me our treaty with the Phocians, and the Amphictyonic decrees, under which they dismantled their defences.
For he declared that he had completely converted Philip to the interests of Athens in respect of the Amphictyonic question and of everything else.
On the Crown
Panhellenic religious-political body whose resolutions authorize action over the sacred territory.
(Sundry Resolutions of the Amphictyons are read)
You see how he avoids personal excuses, and takes shelter in Amphictyonic reasons.
With Aeschines as their trusty guide, the Amphictyons began their tour of the territory;
The Rights of War and Peace
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.
And on this account the Scyrians were formerly condemned by the Amphictyonic council.
Answer to Philip’s Letter
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.
On the Peace
The Greek religious-political council connected with Thermopylae and Delphi.
but they were anxious to control the council at Thermopylae and the Delphian temple —two clear gains for them;
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;