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Phocaea (Turkey) (search for this): book 10, chapter 8
Actium (Greece) (search for this): book 10, chapter 8
Parnassus (Greece) (search for this): book 10, chapter 8
Cirrha (Greece) (search for this): book 10, chapter 8
Phocis (Greece) (search for this): book 10, chapter 8
Attica (Greece) (search for this): book 10, chapter 8
Some are of opinion that the assembly of the Greeks that meets at Delphi was established by Amphictyon, the son of Deucalion, and that the delegates were styled Amphictyons after him. But Androtion, in his history of Attica, says that originally the councillors came to Delphi from the neighboring states, that the deputies were styled Amphictions (neighbors), but that as time went on their modern name prevailed.
They say that Amphictyon himself summoned to the common assembly the following tribes of the Greek people:—Ionians, Dolopes, Thessalians, Aenianians, Magnesians, Malians, Phthiotians, Dorians, Phocians, Locrians who border on Phocis, living at the bottom of Mount Cnemis. But when the Phocians seized the sanctuary, and the war came to an end nine years afterwards, there came a change in the Amphictyonic League. The Macedonians managed to enter it, while the Phocian nation and a section of the Dorians, namely the Lacedaemonians, lost their membership, the Phocians because of thei<
Delphi (Greece) (search for this): book 10, chapter 8
Some are of opinion that the assembly of the Greeks that meets at Delphi was established by Amphictyon, the son of Deucalion, and that the delegates were styled Amphictyons after him. But Androtion, in his history of Attica, says that originally the councillors came to Delphi from the neighboring states, that the deputies were styled Amphictions (neighbors), but that as time went on their modern name prevailed.
They say that Amphictyon himself summoned to the common assembly the following tribe crime, the Lacedaemonians as a penalty for allying themselves with the Phocians.
When Brennus led the Gallic army against Delphi, no Greeks showed greater zeal for the war than the Phocians, and for this conduct of theirs recovered their membership o not more, I think, than three stades, you come to a river named Pleistus. This Pleistus descends to Cirrha, the port of Delphi, and flows into the sea there.
Ascending from the gymnasium along the way to the sanctuary you reach, on the right of the
Thessaly (Greece) (search for this): book 10, chapter 8
Macedonia (Macedonia) (search for this): book 10, chapter 8
Euboea (Greece) (search for this): book 10, chapter 8