Meanings
plural anaktora
- historicalAncient GreeceA palace that only hierophants were permitted to enter as part of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
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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 certainly do sometimes, to the whole telesterion.
2005, Robert Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 351Synonyms: telesterion
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA palace that only hierophants were permitted to enter as part of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
Origin
- Ancient Greekἀνακτόρῐος“belonging to a lord”
- Englishanaktoron
From Ancient Greek ἀνακτόρῐος (anaktórĭos, “belonging to a lord”), from ἀνάκτωρ (anáktōr, “lord”), from ἄναξ (ánax, “lord”).
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