Echedameia

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Echedameia (Ancient Greek: Ἐχεδάμεια) was a town of ancient Phocis. It was destroyed by Philip II of Macedon in the Third Sacred War in 346 BCE. It is enumerated by Pausanias between Medeon and Ambrysus.[1] This was the only source about the town until the discovery in 1863 of an inscription of a manumission that mentions the name of the city several times.[2] Its exact location is unknown.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Pausanias (1918). "3.2". Description of Greece. Vol. 10. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
  2. ^ Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Phokis". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 416. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSmith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Echedameia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.