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Updated: June 13, 2025
We should almost as soon expect to see an amphictyonic council to regulate the affairs of the whole globe. But even if it were desirable to establish such a tribunal, it is beyond the competency of the government of the United States voluntarily to assent to it, without a previous change of their actual constitution."
Proposition of the Spartans in the Amphictyonic Council defeated by Themistocles. Allied Fleet at Cyprus and Byzantium. Pausanias. Alteration in his Character. His ambitious Views and Treason. The Revolt of the Ionians from the Spartan Command. Pausanias recalled. Dorcis replaces him. The Athenians rise to the Head of the Ionian League. Delos made the Senate and Treasury of the Allies.
Delphi was wholly an independent state, administered by a rigid aristocracy ; and though protected by the Amphictyonic council, received from its power none of those haughty admonitions with which the defenders of a modern church have often insulted their charge.
Interference of Sparta with respect to the Fortifications of Athens. Dexterous Conduct of Themistocles. The New Harbour of the Piraeus. Proposition of the Spartans in the Amphictyonic Council defeated by Themistocles. Allied Fleet at Cyprus and Byzantium. Pausanias. Alteration in his Character. His ambitious Views and Treason. The Revolt of the Ionians from the Spartan Command. Pausanias recalled.
Hence, the real influence of the Amphictyonic council was by no means commensurate with its grave renown; and when, in the time of Philip, it became an important political agent, it was only as the corrupt and servile tool of that able monarch.
Mac´e-don, Philip's country, was north of Greece, and its rulers spoke Greek and were of Greek descent; but, as the people of Macedon were not of the same race, the Greeks did not like them, and never allowed them to send any one to the Amphictyonic Council.
At first they were governed by kings, but subsequently an aristocratic government prevailed. They were represented in the Amphictyonic Council. The Doric dialect predominated in a rude form. There is but little interest connected with the States of Greece, before the Persian wars, except Sparta, Athens, and Corinth; and hence a very brief notice is all that is needed.
In Olynthus it was only safe to take Philip's side when the people of Olynthus as a whole had shared Philip's favours, and was enjoying the possession of Poteidaea. In Thessaly it was only safe to take Philip's side when the Thessalian commons had shared Philip's favours; for he had expelled the tyrants for them, and restored to them their Amphictyonic position.
From Eion the victorious confederates proceeded to Scyros, a small island in the Aegean, inhabited by the Dolopians, a tribe addicted to piratical practices, deservedly obnoxious to the traders of the Aegean, and who already had attracted the indignation and vengeance of the Amphictyonic assembly. The isle occupied, and the pirates expelled, the territory was colonized by an Attic population.
Something was needed to restrain passion and heal dissensions without a resort to arms, ever attended by dire calamities. And something was needed to unite these various States, in which the same language was spoken, and the same religion and customs prevailed. This union was partially effected by the Amphictyonic Council.
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