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Ancient literary sources (2)

Perseus Encyclopedia

Amphissa

City of Locris, a refuge for some Delphians when threatened by Xerxes, attacked by Achaeans under Aratus, Locrians of A. harry Phocis, their lands ravaged by Thebans, defends Delphi against Gauls.

Strabo

Amphissa

However, Homer does not mention the Western Locrians, or at least not in express words, but only in that he seems by contrast to distinguish these from those other Locrians of whom I have already spoken, when he says, "of the Locrians who dwell opposite sacred Euboea," implying that there was a different set of Locrians. But they have not been much talked about by many others either. The cities they held were Amphissa and Naupactus;

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