Phocis
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in the texts
Hellenica
Region through which Gylis withdraws before invading Locris.
but Gylis, the polemarch, withdrew with the army to Phocis and from there made an invasion of Locris.
and it was also within their power to transport an army across to Thebes in these same ships, steering for Phocis if they chose, or, if they chose, for Creusis.
The Lacedaemonians, then, and their allies were gathering together in Phocis, and the Thebans had withdrawn to their own country and were guarding the passes.
On the Embassy
A region in central Greece whose cities Demosthenes charges were destroyed as a result of the embassy's conduct.
and after treating a man with such contempt, later, when it suits his whim, he turns about, and as though he were accusing an Alcibiades or a Themistocles, the most famous men among all the Greeks, he proceeds to charge that same man with having destroyed the cities in Phocis, with having lost you the Thracian coast, with having expelled from his kingdom Cersobleptes, a friend and ally of the city.
Yes, my accuser says, because I joined Philip in singing paeans when the cities of Phocis had been razed.
Electra
The region where Orestes was raised in exile after being smuggled away as an infant.
when Orestes was about to die at the hand of Aegisthus, his father’s old servant stole him away and gave him to Strophius to bring up in the land of the Phocians.
Now let Pylades, having one who is both a virgin and a married woman, go home from the Achaean land, and let him conduct the one called your brother-in-law to the land of Phocis, and give him a weight of riches.
Iphigenia in Tauris
Mountainous region in central Greece, homeland of Pylades.
For I will seem a coward and base in Argos and Phocis of the many mountain folds.
Strophius of Phocis is the name of his father.
The Histories
The homeland of the Phocians, referenced in the account of the mountain path's earlier use by the Thessalians against them.
This path had been discovered by the native Malians, who used it to guide the Thessalians into Phocis when the Phocians had fenced off the pass with a wall and were sheltered from the war.
When they entered Phocis from Doris, they could not take the Phocians themselves, for some of the Phocians ascended to the heights of Parnassus.
The Phocians alone of all that region would not take the Persians ' side, and that for no other reason (if I argue correctly) than their hatred of the Thessalians.
Against Ctesiphon
Greek region involved in Philip's campaigns, mercenary movements, and accusations against Athens.
And at the same time he reminded them of your alliance with the Phocians, proposed by that man whom we used to call Top-knot;
But, I think, when Philip had taken Nicaea from them and given it to the Thessalians, and when he was now bringing back again upon Thebes herself through Phocis the same war that he had formerly driven from the borders of Boeotia, and when finally he had seized Elateia and fortified and garrisoned it, then, and not till then, it was, when the peril was laying hold on them, that they sent for the Athenians.
After receiving such benefits at your hands, the Chalcidians did not requite you with like treatment, but as soon as you had crossed over to Euboea to help Plutarchus, while at first they did pretend to be friends to you, yet as soon as we had come to Tamynae and had crossed the mountain called Cotylaeum, then Callias the Chalcidian, who had been the object of Demosthenes’ hired praises, seeing th …
On the Chersonese
A Greek region and people cited among Athens' losses and Philip's destructive acts.
It would not have been safe at Thebes, until he gave them back Boeotia and wiped out the Phocians.
Were you not deceived about Phocis, Thermopylae, the Thraceward districts, Doriscus, Serrium, Cersobleptes himself?
On the Crown
Region used as a military gathering point in Philip's letter.
Therefore meet under arms at Phocis with forty days’ provisions in the next month, styled Lous by us, Boedromion by the Athenians, and Panemus by the Corinthians.
On the False Embassy
Region implicated in the harm from the false embassy and sacred losses to Athens and allies.
a man who had scandalously misconducted his embassy, and who had given away whole provinces in which the gods should have been worshipped by you and your allies, disfranchised one who had prosecuted him at duty’s call.
Second Philippic
A Greek region and people whose abandonment gave Philip strategic access and exemplified the consequences of deception.
What did Philip first get under his control after the Peace?
the Phocians, whom he has himself already destroyed, he is now engaged in preserving!
It would indeed have been fair, men of Athens, to call upon those who conveyed to you Philip’s promises, on the strength of which you were induced to conclude the Peace.
Orestes
Pylades' homeland, from which he arrives to support Orestes.
I belong to Phocis.
But I see Pylades, the best of friends, coming at a run from Phocis—a pleasant sight!
Phoenissae
Region where the branching crossroad lay at which Oedipus unknowingly killed his father Laius.
And the two of them met at the branching road of Phocis.
Electra
Phocis is the land associated with Orestes' exile and the false identity of the visiting strangers.
I was secretly conveyed away to Phocian soil.
Go, lady, enter and make it known that certain men of Phocis seek Aegisthus.
Which of you can tell me where those Phocian strangers are, who are said to have brought report for us that Orestes passed away amidst the shipwrecked chariots?
Oedipus Tyrannus
The land containing the fork where Laius was reportedly killed.
The land is called Phocis;