Ambracia
“and the Ambracian Gulf”
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the Ambracian Gulf
in the texts
Fourth Philippic
Greek city named in the catalogue of Philip's aggressive acts.
I pass over many other instances, such as Pherae, the raid against Ambracia, the massacres at Elis, and countless others.
On Halonnesus
A Greek city or place against which Philip is said to be conducting an expedition.
he is even now engaged in an expedition against Ambracia, and as for the three Elean colonies in Cassopia — Pandosia, Bucheta, and Elatea—he has wasted their land with fire, stormed their cities, and handed them over to be the slaves of his own kinsman, Alexander.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The city of Ambracia and its gulf, the home city of the Ambraciots whose capture is contemplated but avoided after their catastrophic defeat.
Not long after, the Athenians came with their twenty ships into the Ambracian Gulf to assist the Argives;
I know, however, that if the Acarnanians and Amphilochians had wished, in compliance with the advice of Demosthenes, to take Ambracia, they would have done so on the first assault:
Afterwards the Corinthians sent a garrison of their own citizens to Ambracia, consisting of three hundred heavy-armed, under the command of Xenoclides son of Euthycles, who reached their destination by a difficult route through Epirus.