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The concept of amphictiony, transliterated from the Greek

Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 6:45 am
by samiaseo222
The man credited by Stefkin to have finely tuned these two concepts, that combined can be referred to as the “Delphic Amphictyon,” is Cypselus (657-627 B.C.). Cypselus was a ranking member of the Bacchiadae family and is described by the Encyclopedia Britannica as a, “7th century Greek politician and tyrant of Corinth.”

Word amphictyones, or “dwellers around,” were religious associations of politically independent Greek city states.

The list of social conditions that were prevalent in Ancient job function email list Greece by the time of the Roman conquest in about 80 B.C. sounds amazingly similar to conditions common to the contemporary American experience.

As a learning tool, Bill Denman of Taxpayers United For Freedom of Sandpoint, made an interesting list of those conditions as described in “The Life of Greece” by historian Will Durant. Nudity, graduated income tax, welfare, slave labor, inflation, abortion, epidemic dishonesty from politicians, sexual promiscuity, homosexuality, state-controlled public instruction, subsidies for the arts, planning and zoning, nationalization of industry, public works and urban renewal projects.

Democracy, farm subsidies and import/export controls and the promotion of social preoccupation with appearance rather than intrinisic worth are just a few of the conditions that were either promoted by or resulted from the policies of Greek leadership. Greek leaders were typically either a member of a powerful Greek family or one of their puppets.