Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

When they entered +Phocis (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Phocis from Doris, they could not take the Phocians themselves, for some of the Phocians ascended to the heights of +Parnassus (mountain), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Parnassus. The peak of +Parnassus (mountain), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Parnassus called +Tithorea [22.6833,38.5833] (Perseus) Tithorea, which rises by itself near the town Neon, has room enough for a multitude of people. It was there that they carried their goods and themselves ascended to it,

but most of them made their way out of the country to the Ozolian Locrians, where the town of +Amphissa [22.3833,38.525] (Perseus) Amphissa lies above the Crisaean plain. The barbarians, while the Thessalians so guided their army, overran the whole of +Phocis (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Phocis. All that came within their power they laid waste to and burnt, setting fire to towns and temples.