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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(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 certainly do sometimes, to the whole telesterion.
Use anaktoron when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Anaktoron means (historical, Ancient Greece) A palace that only hierophants were permitted to enter as part of the Eleusinian Mysteries..
Common synonyms include telesterion.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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