• Amphissa may refer to: Look up amphissa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Amphissa (city), an alternative writing for Amfissa, a town and a former municipality...
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  • Greek mythology, Amphissa (Ancient Greek: Ἄμφισσα) may refer to the following personages: Amphissa, daughter of Macareus. Amphissa, an alternate name...
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  • In Greek mythology, Amphissa (Ancient Greek: Ἄμφισσα) or simply, Issa (/ˈiːsɑː/; Ἴσσα) was the daughter of Macareus and a lover of Apollo. She was the...
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    Amfissa (redirect from Amphissa (city))
    Amfissa (Greek: Άμφισσα [ˈamfisa], also mentioned in classical sources as Amphissa) is a town in Phocis, Greece, part of the municipality of Delphi, of which...
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    arrived in Amphissa, a city near Delphi. There they sank down exhausted in the market place and were overpowered by a deep sleep. The women of Amphissa formed...
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    century after Cleopatra but relied on primary sources, such as Philotas of Amphissa, who had access to the Ptolemaic royal palace, Cleopatra's personal physician...
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    Amphissa. He tricked a force of 10,000 mercenaries who were guarding the road from Phocis to Amphissa into abandoning their posts, then took Amphissa...
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  • Archytas (Ancient Greek: Ἀρχύτας) of Amphissa was a Greek poet who was probably a contemporary of Euphorion of Chalcis, about 300 BCE, since it was a matter...
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    Amphissa versicolor, also called variegated amphissa or variegate amphissa, is a species of small sea snail in the family Columbellidae. It is native to...
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    Amphissa columbiana, known as the wrinkled dove snail, wrinkled amphissa, or Columbian amphissa, is a species of sea snail native to the western coast...
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    Corinth, between Naupactus and Crisa. The main cities of Ozolian Locris were Amphissa and Naupactus which was its seaport. To the north east of Phocis was Opuntian...
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  • Amphissus eventually built a temple to his father in the city he founded, Amphissa. Apollo found Dryope tending her sheep on a mountainside while she was...
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    Synonyms Spilosoma transiens Walker, 1855 Aloa isabellina Walker, 1855 Amphissa vacillans Walker, 1855 Creatonotus koni Miyake, 1909 Creatonotos ananthakrishanani...
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    Microvoluta amphissa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae. The length of the shell attains 6.156 mm. From...
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  • Amphissa acutecostata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails. The length of the shell varies...
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    Turricostellaria amphissa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters. MolluscaBase (2018)....
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    genus Amphissa include: Amphissa acuminata (E. A. Smith, 1915) Amphissa acutecostata (R. A. Philippi, 1844) Amphissa bicolor Dall, 1892 Amphissa cancellata...
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    information related to Dysschema amphissum. Savela, Markku. "Dysschema amphissa (Geyer, 1832)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September...
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    Alexander reportedly saved his father's life. Meanwhile, the city of Amphissa began to work lands that were sacred to Apollo near Delphi, a sacrilege...
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    the Danube and Macedonia's involvement in the Fourth Sacred War against Amphissa in 339 BC. Thebes ejected a Macedonian garrison from Nicaea (near Thermopylae)...
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  • Fourth Sacred War (339 BC), between Philip II of Macedon and the city of Amphissa in Lokris. Fifth Sacred War (281 - 280 BC), between the Aitolian League...
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    subfaults within the Corinth Basin and to the north of it. One of these is the Amphissa-Arachova fault system, containing the Delphi fault, and creating the Pleistos...
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  • southern Italy. Possibly built on the site of the ancient Greek settlement of Amphissa, Roccella is probably best known for hosting a major annual jazz festival...
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    Krisa, which once was the ruling power of the entire valley system. Both Amphissa and Krissa are mentioned in the Iliad's Catalogue of Ships. It was a Mycenaean...
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  • to rebuild the ruined town. This led to the Second Sacred War, in which Amphissa was taken by Philip, to whom the Amphictyons had entrusted the conduct...
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    numerous of Alma-Tadema's canvases after their marriage (The Women of Amphissa (1887) being a notable example). This second marriage was enduring and...
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    expenditures of incredible profusion. At any rate, Philotas, the physician of Amphissa, used to tell my grandfather, Lamprias, that he was in Alexandria at the...
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  • He and his wife were buried in one tomb which was shown in the city of Amphissa. Andraemon, brother of Leonteus. He married Amphinome, a daughter of Pelias...
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    the western Ozolians and the eastern Opuntians; their primary towns were Amphissa and Opus respectively, and their most important colony was the city of...
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  • 10.38.4, which says that the Locrian city of Amphissa was said to have derived its name from "Amphissa, daughter of Macar, son of Aeolus". Frazer's note...
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