adytons
adytons is the plural of adyton.
Meaning of adyton
Noun
adyton (plural adyta or adytons)
- Synonym of adytum.
- The temple had no opisthodomos as usually understood, but this name was given at Didyma to the west wall of the adyton. The adyton floor was covered with a pavement in later centuries, but in the third century B.C. a grove of bay trees, it appears, grew in the adyton (and this is probably true of...1988, Joseph Eddy Fontenrose, Didyma: Apollo's Oracle, Cult, and Companions, University of California Press, page 40
- Synonyms:
- adytum
Questions about adytons
- What is adytons the plural of?
- Adytons is the plural of adyton.
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