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  Amphictyonis - Search Results - MSN Encarta
10229 : Amphictyonis October 25th, 2006 • Purchase Print More information about this photograph can be found here: Comments...
Aegiale (daughter of Helios) Aergia; Agdistis; Aglaea; Aidos; Alala; Alecto; Alectrona; Aletheia (mythology) Amphictyonis...
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encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=Amphictyonis   (114 words)

  
 The Greek Goddesses
What I CAN say for sure is that "alphito" is the Greek word for "barley."
I could see how she could come in handy, but I don't see how anyone drunk on the Wine that she's the Goddess of could say a toast in her name!
Actually, Amphictyonis was just a surname of Demeter, to whom sacrifices were offered at the beginning of every meeting (in Thermopylae).
www.paleothea.com /Goddesses.html   (11007 words)

  
  Pythian Games at Delphi, BC 585
Thus there was an Amphictyony of seven cities at the holy island of Caluria, close to the harbor of Troezen.
But there was one among these many Amphictyonies, which, though starting from the smallest beginnings, gradually expanded into so comprehensive a character, had acquired so marked a predominance over the rest, as to be called the "Amphictyonic assembly," and even to have been mistaken by some authors for a sort of federal Hellenic diet.
Twelve sub-races, out of the number which made up entire Hellas, belonged to this ancient Amphictyony, the meetings of which were held twice in every year: in spring at the temple of Apollo at Delphi; in autumn at Thermopylæ, in the sacred precinct of Demeter Amphictyonis.
www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Texts/Book/PythianGames.html   (4746 words)

  
 Archaeological Atlas of the Aegean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
It was the headquarters of the Pylaean Amphictyony that is the religious and political centre of the Greeks living around the Maliac gulf.
Ruins of a stoa and a stadium have been excavated 2.5 km W of Kolonos hill.
The sanctuary of Demeter Amphictyonis at ancient Anthele was renowned in antiquity.
www.ypai.gr /atlas/thesi_uk.asp?idthesis=183   (153 words)

  
 CRpSuite : Playing aids and game analysis utils - Page 12 - Civilization Fanatics' Forums
Amphictyonis is displayed twice right next to each other within 1 tile apart.
IIRC, I disbanded Amphictyonis and rebuilt it within the same turn.
To reproduce this problem, just download my HoF Sid game and look at any year after Amphictyonis was founded the second time.
forums.civfanatics.com /showthread.php?t=52902&page=12   (1771 words)

  
 Mythology Encyclopedia, Greek Mythology, Norse, Roman, Egyptian, Celtic, World Mythology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
One of the wicked sons of Lycaon was also named Orestheus, which may account for the forced connection which the mythographers have made between the myth of the umble soup and the Deucalionian Flood.
Amphictyon, the name of another of Deucalion’s sons, is a male form of Amphictyonis, the goddess in whose name the famous northern confederation, the Amphictyonic League, had been founded; according to Strabo, Callimachus, and the Scholiast on Euripides’s Orestes, it was regularized by Acrisius of Argos.
Civilized Greeks, unlike the dissolute Thracians, abstained from neat wine; and its tempering with water at the conference of the member states, which took place in the vintage season at Antela near Thermopylae, will have been a precaution against murderous disputes.
www.worldmythology.ws /greek-mythology/greek-myths/deucalions-flood   (1678 words)

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