Amphictyons
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in the texts
The Histories
The Amphictyonic League, responsible for financing the rebuilding of the burned temple at Delphi, partly through a large gift of alum from Amasis.
They went about from city to city collecting gifts, and got most from Egypt;
When the Amphictyons paid three hundred talents to have the temple that now stands at Delphi finished (as that which was formerly there burnt down by accident), it was the Delphians ' lot to pay a fourth of the cost.
Between the river and Thermopylae there is a village named Anthele, past which the Asopus flows out into the sea, and there is a wide space around it in which stand a temple of Amphictyonid Demeter, seats for the Amphictyons, and a temple of Amphictyon himself
Against Ctesiphon
Sacred interstate body governing Delphic matters through delegates, oaths, decrees, and campaigns.
The Oaths.
The curse goes on:
The other Amphictyons took their seats.
On the Embassy
The Amphictyonic body connected with Delphi and the sacred laws, before which Aeschines claims to have defended Phocians.
And in particular I spoke about the expedition to Thermopylae, and about the holy places, and Delphi, and the Amphictyons.
At the same time I reviewed from the beginning the story of the founding of the shrine, and of the first synod of the Amphictyons that was ever held;
or after Philip had invited us, when we had already received his oaths and had an alliance with him, and when the Thessalians and the other Amphictyons were taking part in the expedition?
On the Crown
Panhellenic religious-political body involved in Delos advocacy and the Amphissa crisis.
The war at Amphissa, that is, the war that brought Philip to Elatea, and caused the election, as general of the Amphictyons, of a man who turned all Greece upside down, was due to the machinations of this man.
We, Callias of Sunium, Zeno of Phlya, Cleon of Phalerum, Demonicus of Marathon, on behalf of all the councillors, bear witness for Demosthenes that, when the people elected Aeschines state-advocate before the Amphictyons in the matter of the temple at Delos, we in Council judged Hypereides more worthy to speak on behalf of the state, and Hypereides was accordingly commissioned.
On the False Embassy
Interstate council mentioned as part of Athens' reduced leadership and anxiety.
Today we prowl the streets wondering what the other communities have resolved, all agog to hear what is the news from Arcadia, what is the news from the Amphictyons, what will be Philip’s next movement, whether he is alive or dead.
On the Peace
The Amphictyonic body, skeptically described, whose decrees may be used as a pretext against Athens.
The second precaution, men of Athens, is to avoid giving the self-styled Amphictyons now assembled any call or excuse for a crusade against us.
Theomnestus and Apollodorus Against Neaera
The council overseeing the sanctuary at Delphi, before whom the Plataeans successfully sued the Lacedaemonians to force removal of Pausanias's self-glorifying inscription.
and the Greeks were incensed at this, and the Plataeans brought suit on behalf of the allies against the Lacedaemonians before the Amphictyons for one thousand talents, and compelled them to erase the distich and to inscribe the names of all the states which had had a part in the work.
Third Philippic
Members of the Amphictyonic religious-political association connected to Delphi.
Has he not the right of precedence at the Oracle, ousting us and the Thessalians and the Dorians and the rest of the Amphictyons from a privilege which not even all Greek states can claim?
Orations
Council overseeing the Delphic sanctuary, invoked as an authority who would not permit the reversal of established dedications.
and none of the Amphictyons would have endured it.
Antidosis
The council or group persuaded by Cleisthenes to provide funds from Apollo's treasury.
Next, Cleisthenes, after he had been driven from Athens by the tyrants, succeeded by his eloquence in persuading the Amphictyons to lend him money from the treasury of Apollo, and thus restored the people to power, expelled the tyrants, and established that democracy to which the world of Hellas owes its greatest blessings.