the Sacred War
“against Cirrha”
event · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Sacred War · the Holy War · war against Cirrha · war for the Delphic temple
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2 expressionsSacred War2 mentions
On the Peace (Greek) · Politics (Greek)
I only know this, that Philip was less interested in those towns than desirous to secure the pass, to win for himself the credit of finishing off the Sacred War, and to preside at the Pythian games.
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Politics
A major Greek war identified as originating in a local Phocian faction over an heiress.
And among the Phocians when a faction arising out of an heiress sprang up in connection with Mnaseas the father of Mnason and Euthykrates the father of Onomarchus, this faction proved to be the beginning for the Phocians of the Holy War.
On the Peace
The Greek sacred conflict whose conclusion Philip sought to claim.
I only know this, that Philip was less interested in those towns than desirous to secure the pass, to win for himself the credit of finishing off the Sacred War, and to preside at the Pythian games.
Pericles
Conflict over control of the Delphic sanctuary between the Lacedaemonians/Delphians and Pericles/Phocians.
And whereas the Lacedaemonians had had the promanteia, or right of consulting the oracle in behalf of others also, which the Delphians had bestowed upon them, carved upon the forehead of the bronze wolf in the sanctuary, he secured from the Phocians this high privilege for the Athenians, and had it chiselled along the right side of the same wolf.
Solon
War undertaken by the Amphictyonic League against the people of Cirrha to defend the Delphic temple, urged by Solon.
He was not, however, appointed general for this war, as Evanthes the Samian says (according to Hermippus), for Aeschines the orator makes no such statement, and in the records of Delphi it is stated that Alcmaeon, and not Solon, commanded the Athenians.
But he was even more admired and celebrated among the Greeks for what he said in behalf of the temple at Delphi, namely, that the Greeks must come to its relief, and not suffer the people of Cirrha to outrage the oracle, but aid the Delphians in maintaining the honor of the god.