Fourth Sacred War

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Fourth Sacred War

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Amphissa
The city provoked the Fourth Sacred War when it was denounced (339 bce) for the impiety of cultivating the sacred wooded plain of Crisa, still drained by the stream Pleistus. The following year it was destroyed by Philip II of Macedonia, who undertook the punitive mission on behalf of…
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The city provoked the Fourth Sacred War when it was denounced (339 bce) for the impiety of cultivating the sacred wooded plain of Crisa, still drained by the stream Pleistus. The following year it was destroyed by Philip II of Macedonia, who undertook the punitive mission on behalf of…
Read More