amphictyonic

The Greek city-states formed amphictyonic councils to stabilize relations between them, and they estab - lished a truce to suspend wars during the Olympic games.

INTERNATIONAL PEACE WARREN F. KUEHL 1968

However alluring the picture of an amphictyonic council embracing all civilized nations may be, I do not believe that our efforts should be directed toward this end, an end whose realization can scarcely be glimpsed even in some dim and distant future.

Albert Gobat - Nobel Lecture 1902

They were cautioned against committing their government in any way to the establishment of "an amphictyonic council, invested with power fully to decide controversies between the American states or to regulate in any respect their conduct."

From Isolation to Leadership, Revised A Review of American Foreign Policy John Holladay Latane 1900

The Olympic Games were of greater efficacy than the amphictyonic council in promoting a spirit of union among the various branches of the Greek race, and in keeping alive a feeling of their common origin.

A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest William Smith 1853

They consulted the same oracle; they celebrated the same national festival: mingled their deliberations in the same amphictyonic and subordinate assemblies, and sat together upon the free benches to hear their glorious history read aloud, in the prose of Heroditus, the poetry of

The American Union Speaker 1852

”—“Turn your eyes, ” said I, “to the Thessalians! think ye, that when he first expelled their tyrants, when he then gave them up Nicæa and Magnesia, that they expected ever to have been subjected to those governors now imposed on them? or that the man who restored them to their seat in the amphictyonic council would have deprived them of their own proper revenues? yet, that such was the event, the world can testify.

I. The Second Oration Against Philip 1906

"It is indispensable that you should incessantly urge the necessary to establish immediately the foundations of an amphictyonic body or assembly of plenipotentiaries to promote the common interests of the

Simon Bolivar, the Liberator Guillermo A. Sherwell

“It is indispensable that you should incessantly urge the necessary to establish immediately the foundations of an amphictyonic body or assembly of plenipotentiaries to promote the common interests of the

Simon Bolivar the Liberator Sherwell, Guillermo A 1921