Amphictyonic

There, where the Persians had crushed the Spartans on their way to destroy Athens, Philip, backed by his army, at last forced the Amphictyonic Council to take decisive action against the Phocian rebels and end the impasse.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Before the ink was dry on the treaty with Thessaly, Alexander was moving south to Thermopylae, where he convened the Amphictyonic Council and accepted the loyalty of the cities of central Greece.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

In 356, the same year Alexander was born, a dispute had broken out between the local inhabitants around Delphi and the cities of the Amphictyonic Council, a regional organization of towns dedicated to protecting the oracle.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Before the ink was dry on the treaty with Thessaly, Alexander was moving south to Thermopylae, where he convened the Amphictyonic Council and accepted the loyalty of the cities of central Greece.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

There, where the Persians had crushed the Spartans on their way to destroy Athens, Philip, backed by his army, at last forced the Amphictyonic Council to take decisive action against the Phocian rebels and end the impasse.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

In 356, the same year Alexander was born, a dispute had broken out between the local inhabitants around Delphi and the cities of the Amphictyonic Council, a regional organization of towns dedicated to protecting the oracle.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

There, where the Persians had crushed the Spartans on their way to destroy Athens, Philip, backed by his army, at last forced the Amphictyonic Council to take decisive action against the Phocian rebels and end the impasse.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Before the ink was dry on the treaty with Thessaly, Alexander was moving south to Thermopylae, where he convened the Amphictyonic Council and accepted the loyalty of the cities of central Greece.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

In 356, the same year Alexander was born, a dispute had broken out between the local inhabitants around Delphi and the cities of the Amphictyonic Council, a regional organization of towns dedicated to protecting the oracle.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

No precedent existed for such a government—not in contemporary Europe, where neither the Swiss, the Dutch, nor the Germans provided an appropriate model; nor in the Achaean and Lycian Leagues or the Amphictyonic Council of ancient times.

Ratification Pauline Maier 2010