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Phocis (/ ˈ f oʊ s ɪ s /; Greek: Φωκίδα; Ancient Greek: Φωκίς) is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the administrative region of Central Greece . It stretches from the western mountainsides of Parnassus on the east to the mountain range of Vardousia on the west, upon the Gulf of Corinth .
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The tenth book of the work Description of Greece by the traveler Pausanias (2nd century AD) is dedicated to Phocis; its larger part constitutes a description of the sanctuaries and buildings of Delphi. His work constituted a precious aid to travelers and archaeologists who attempted to identify the monuments revealed by the excavations ...
Pausanias, Description of Greece, Volume IV: Books 8.22-10 (Arcadia, Boeotia, Phocis and Ozolian Locri), translated by W. H. S. Jones, Loeb Classical Library No. 297, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1935. ISBN 978-0-674-99328-0. Online version at Harvard University Press. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Alma-Tadema accurately recreates on his canvas the events recounted by Plutarch, in his book Moralia: "At the time when usurpers from Phocis seized the sanctuary of Delphi and the Thebans declared the so-called sacred war on them, the women in the service of Dionysus, who are called the maenads, in a trance and wandering at night, did not ...
Phocis was an ancient region in the central part of ancient Greece, which included Delphi. A modern administrative unit, also called Phocis , is named after the ancient region, although the modern region is substantially larger than the ancient one.
Onomarchus' campaigning began in 353 BC. [1] He invaded Locris, took the town of Thronium, compelled Amphissa to surrender, ravaged the Dorian Tetrapolis, and finally turned his arms against Boeotia, where he took Orchomenus and laid siege to Chaeronea, but was compelled to retreat without effecting anything more.