hetaireiai

German - Turkish

Definition of hetaireiai in German Turkish dictionary

private social clubs of hetairoi (male comrades, usually elite citizens and not to be confused with hetairai above). While these were drinking and dining associations, they frequently had political connotations. In Athens, they were associated with the multilation of the herms and the profaning of the Mysteries in 415 B.C.E. and the oligarchic coups of 411 and 404