Elatea
place · 3 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
in the texts
On the Crown
Place reached by Philip as a consequence of the Amphissa war.
The war at Amphissa, that is, the war that brought Philip to Elatea, and caused the election, as general of the Amphictyons, of a man who turned all Greece upside down, was due to the machinations of this man.
Evening had already fallen when a messenger arrived bringing to the presiding councillors the news that Elatea had been taken.
He lost no time, collected his army, pretended to march to Cirrha, and then bade the Cirrhaeans and the Locrians alike good-bye and good luck, and seized Elatea.
On Halonnesus
One of the Elean colonies in Cassopia said to have been devastated by Philip.
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.
Second Philippic
A place rumored to be a target of Philip's fortification.
So they say he is waiting to regard the Thebans with suspicion, and some circulate a rumor that he will fortify Elatea.