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In Archaic Greece, an amphictyony (Greek: ἀμφικτυονία, a "league of neighbors"), or amphictyonic league, was an ancient religious[1] association of tribes[2] formed before the rise of the Greek poleis.
The six Dorian cities of coastal southwest Anatolia and the twelve Ionian cities to their north that formed the Ionian League after a Meliac war in the mid-7th century BC were already of considerable antiquity when the first written records emerge.
An amphictyony consisting of polities under the aegis of Apollo's shrine at Delos was apparently well-established in the seventh century, as the Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo of that approximate date lists them,[3]
those cities and islands that trembled[4] and refused to offer themselves for the birthplace of Apollo when pregnant Leto went to each in turn; the Homeric hymn presents an origin myth for the cult of Apollo on Delos. The joint Ionian festival celebrated there was the Delia. The Delian Amphictyony arose in the 4th century BC as an instrument of Athenian hegemony.
^Definition. "Amphictyony". 2014. Dictionary.com. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
^History.com Archived April 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine; Encarta Archived 2009-10-29 at the Wayback Machine. Archived 2009-10-31.
^Cf. Encyclopædia Britannica, 11 ed., s.v. Botsford, George Willis (1911). "Amphictyony" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 885–886.
^Hera, notably worshiped at Samos in the Archaic period, was opposed to the birth of Apollo and obstructed Leto's parturition, according to the Hymn.
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