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anaktora

anaktora is the plural of anaktoron.

Meaning of anaktoron

Noun

anaktoron (plural anaktora)

  1. (historical, Ancient Greece) A palace that only hierophants were permitted to enter as part of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
    • Most scholars name the rectangular enclosure anaktoron, locate in it the throne of the hierophant, and suppose that from it emanated the central revelation which occurred, in Plutarch's phrase, ‘when the anaktora were opened’. But it is also argued that anaktoron/anaktora refer always, as they...2005, Robert Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 351
    Synonyms:
    telesterion

Questions about anaktora

What is anaktora the plural of?
Anaktora is the plural of anaktoron.

Words near anaktora in the dictionary

  1. Anakin
  2. anakinra
  3. Anakite
  4. Anakites
  5. anakrousis
  6. anaktora
  7. anaktoron
  8. anakusis
  9. anal
  10. anal bead
  11. anal beads

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