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BOOK X.—PHOCIS.
 CHAPTER I.

T hat part of Phocis which is in the neighbourhood of Tithorea and

Delphi took its name in very ancient times from the Corinthian
Phocus, the son of Ornytion. But not many years afterwards all the
country now called Phocis got that name, after the Æginetans and
Phocus the son of Æacus crossed over there in their ships. Phocis is
opposite the Peloponnese and near Bœotia and on the sea, and has
ports at Cirrha (near Delphi) and Anticyra: the Epicnemidian Locrians
prevent their being on the sea at the Lamiac Gulf, for they dwell in
that part of Phocis, as the Scarpheans north of Elatea, and north of
Hyampolis and Abæ the people of Opus, whose harbour is Cynus.
The most eminent public transactions of the Phocians were as
follows. They took part in the war against Ilium, and fought against
the Thessalians, (before the Persians invaded Greece), when they
displayed the following prowess. At Hyampolis, at the place where
they expected the Thessalians to make their attack, they buried in
the earth some earthenware pots, just covering them over with soil,
and awaited the attack of the Thessalian cavalry: and they not
knowing of the artifice of the Phocians spurred their horses on to
these pots. And some of the horses were lamed by these pots, and
some of the riders were killed others unhorsed. And when the
Thessalians more angry than before with the Phocians gathered
together a force from all their cities and invaded Phocis, then the
Phocians (in no small alarm at the various preparations made by the
Thessalians for war, and not least at the quantity and quality of their
cavalry), sent to Delphi to inquire how they were to escape from the
coming danger: and the answer of the oracle was, “I put together in
combat a mortal and immortal, and I shall give victory to both, but
the greater victory to the mortal.” When the Phocians heard this they
sent 300 picked men under Gelon against the enemy at nightfall,
bidding them watch as stealthily as they could the movements of the
Thessalians, and return to the camp by the most out-of-the-way
road, and not to fight if they could help it. These picked men were all
cut to pieces by the Thessalians together with their leader Gelon,
being ridden down by the horses, and butchered by their riders. And
their fate brought such consternation into the camp of the Phocians,
that they gathered together their women and children and all their
goods, their apparel and gold and silver and the statues of the gods,
and made a very large funeral pile, and left thirty men in charge with
strict orders if the Phocians should be defeated in the battle, to cut
the throats of the women and children, and offer them as victims with
all the property on the funeral pile, and set light to it, and either kill
one another there, or rush on the Thessalian cavalry. Desperate
resolves such as this have ever since been called by the Greeks
Phocian Resolution. And forthwith the Phocians marched forth
against the Thessalians, under the command of Rhœus of Ambrosus
and Daiphantes of Hyampolis, the latter in command of the cavalry,
and the former in command of the infantry. But the commander in
chief was Tellias, the seer of Elis, on whom all the hopes of the
Phocians for safety were placed. And when the engagement came
on, then the Phocians bethought them of their resolves as to their
women and children, and saw that their own safety was by no means
certain, they were consequently full of desperation, and the omens of
the god being auspicious, won one of the most famous victories of
their time. Then the oracle which was given to the Phocians by
Apollo became clear to all the Greeks, for the word given by the
Thessalian commanders was Itonian Athene, and the word given by
the Phocian commanders Phocus. In consequence of this victory the
Phocians sent to Apollo to Delphi statues of the seer Tellias and of
the other commanders in the battle, and also of the local heroes.
These statues were by Aristomedon the Argive.
The Phocians also found out another contrivance as successful as
their former one.[84] For when the enemy’s camp was pitched at the
entrance to Phocis, five hundred picked Phocians waited till the
moon was at its full, and made a night attack on the Thessalians,
having smeared themselves and likewise their armour with plaster so
as to look white. A tremendous slaughter of the Thessalians is said
to have ensued, who looked upon what they saw as a divine
appearance, and not as a ruse of the enemy.
It was Tellias of Elis who contrived this trick on the Thessalians.
[84] Reading τῶν πρότερον as Siebelis suggests.
 CHAPTER II.

W hen the army of the Persians passed into Europe, it is said that
the Phocians were obliged to join Xerxes, but they deserted
the Medes and fought on the Greek side at Platæa. Some time
afterwards a fine was imposed upon them by the Amphictyonic
Council. I cannot ascertain why, whether it was imposed upon them
because they had acted unjustly in some way, or whether it was their
old enemies the Thessalians who got this fine imposed. And as they
were in a state of great despondency about the largeness of the fine,
Philomelus the son of Philotimus, second in merit to none of the
Phocians, whose native place was Ledon one of the Phocian cities,
addressed them and showed them how impossible it was to pay the
money, and urged upon them to seize the temple at Delphi, alleging
among other persuasive arguments that the condition of Athens and
Lacedæmon was favourable to this plan, and that if the Thebans or
any other nation warred against them, they would come off victorious
through their courage and expenditure of money. The majority of the
Phocians were pleased with the arguments of Philomelus, whether
the deity perverted their judgment,[85] or that they put gain before
piety. So the Phocians seized the temple at Delphi, when Heraclides
was President at Delphi, and Agathocles Archon at Athens, in the
fourth year of the 105th Olympiad, when Prorus of Cyrene was
victorious in the course. And after seizing the temple they got
together the strongest army of mercenaries in Greece, and the
Thebans, who had previously been at variance with them, openly
declared war against them. The war lasted 10 continuous years, and
during that long time frequently the Phocians and their mercenaries
prevailed, frequently the Thebans had the best of it. But in an
engagement near the town Neon the Phocians were routed, and
Philomelus in his flight threw himself down a steep and precipitous
crag, and so perished: and the Amphictyonic Council imposed the
same end on all those who had plundered the temple at Delphi. And
after the death of Philomelus the Phocians gave the command to
Onomarchus, and Philip the son of Amyntas joined the Thebans: and
Philip was victorious in the battle, and Onomarchus fled in the
direction of the sea, and was there shot by the arrows of his own
soldiers, for they thought their defeat had come about through his
cowardice and inexperience in military matters. Thus Onomarchus
ended his life by the will of the deity, and the Phocians chose his
brother Phayllus as commander in chief with unlimited power. And
he had hardly been invested with this power when he saw the
following apparition in a dream. Among the votive offerings of Apollo
was an imitation in brass of an old man, with his flesh already
wasted away and his bones only left. It was said by the Delphians to
have been a votive offering given by Hippocrates the doctor.
Phayllus dreamt that he was like this old man, and forthwith a
wasting disease came upon him, and fulfilled the dream. And after
the death of Phayllus the chief power at Phocis devolved upon his
son Phalæcus, but he was deposed because he helped himself
privately to the sacred money. And he sailed over to Crete with those
Phocians who joined his party, and with a portion of the mercenaries,
and besieged Cydonia, because the inhabitants would not give him
the money he demanded, and in the siege lost most of his army and
his own life.
[85] Compare the Proverb, Quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat
prius.
 CHAPTER III.

A nd Philip put an end to the war, called the Phocian or the Sacred
War, in the tenth year after the plunder of the temple, when
Theophilus was Archon at Athens, in the first year of the 108th
Olympiad, in which Polycles of Cyrene won the prize in the course.
And the following Phocian towns were taken and rased to the
ground, Lilæa, Hyampolis, Anticyra, Parapotamii, Panopeus, and
Daulis. These towns were renowned in ancient times and not least in
consequence of the lines of Homer.[86] But those which the army of
Xerxes burnt were rendered thereby more famous in Greece, as
Erochus, Charadra, Amphiclea, Neon, Tithronium, and Drymæa. All
the others except Elatea were obscure prior to this war, as Trachis,
Medeon, Echedamia, Ambrosus, Ledon, Phlygonium, and Stiris. And
now all those towns which I have mentioned were rased to the
ground, and except Abæ turned into villages. Abæ had had no hand
in the impiety of the other towns, and had had no share either in the
seizing of the temple or in the Sacred War. The Phocians were also
deprived of participation in the temple at Delphi and in the general
Greek Council, and the Amphictyonic Council gave their votes to the
Macedonians. As time went on however the Phocian towns were
rebuilt, and they returned to them from the villages, except to such
as had always been weak, and suffered at this time from want of
money. And the Athenians and Thebans forwarded this restoration,
before the fatal defeat of the Greeks at Chæronea, in which the
Phocians took part, as afterwards they fought against Antipater and
the Macedonians at Lamia and Crannon. They fought also against
the Galati and the Celtic army with greater bravery than any of the
Greeks, to avenge the god at Delphi, and to atone I think for their
former guilt. Such are the most memorable public transactions of the
Phocians.
[86] Iliad, ii. 519-523. Cyparissus in Hom. is probably Anticyra.
See ch. 36.
 CHAPTER IV.

F rom Chæronea it is about 20 stades to Panopeus, a town in

Phocis, if town that can be called which has no Town-Hall, no
gymnasium, no theatre, no market-place, no public fountain, and
where the inhabitants live in narrow dwellings, like mountain
cottages, near a ravine. But they have boundaries, and send
members to the Phocian Council. They say that their town got its
name from the father of Epeus, and that they were not Phocians
originally, but Phlegyans who fled into Phocis from Orchomenia. The
ancient enclosure of Panopeus occupies I conjecture about 7 stades,
and I remembered the lines of Homer about Tityus, where he called
Panopeus the town delighting in the dance,[87] and in the contest for
the dead body of Patroclus he says that Schedius (the son of Iphitus)
the king of the Phocians, who was slain by Hector, dwelt at
Panopeus.[88] It appears to me that he dwelt there from fear of the
Bœotians, making Panopeus a garrison-town, for this is the point
where the Bœotians have the easiest approach to Phocis. I could not
however understand why Homer called Panopeus delighting in the
dance, till I was instructed by those who among the Athenians are
called Thyiades. These Thyiades are Athenian women who annually
go to Parnassus in concert with the Delphian women, and celebrate
the orgies of Dionysus. These Thyiades hold dances on the road
from Athens and elsewhere and also at Panopeus: and I imagine
Homer’s epithet relates to this.
There is in the street of Panopeus a building of unbaked brick of no
great size, and in it a statue in Pentelican marble, which some say is
Æsculapius and others Prometheus. The last adduce the following to
confirm their opinion. Some stones lie near the ravine each large
enough to fill a cart, in colour like the clay found in ravines and sandy
torrents, and they smell very like the human body. They say that
these are remains of the clay out of which the human race was
fashioned by Prometheus. Near the ravine is also the sepulchre of
Tityus, the circumference of the mound is about the third of a stade.
Of Tityus it is said in the Odyssey,[89]
 “On the ground lying, and he lay nine roods.”

But some say that this line does not state the size of Tityus, but that
the place where he lay is called Nine Roods. But Cleon, one of the
Magnesians that live on the banks of the Hermus, said that people
are by nature incredulous of wonderful things, who have not in the
course of their lives met with strange occurrences, and that he
himself believed that Tityus and others were as large as tradition
represented, for when he was at Gades, and he and all his
companions sailed from the island according to the bidding of
Hercules, on his return he saw a sea monster who had been washed
ashore, who had been struck by lightning and was blazing, and he
covered five roods. So at least he said.
About seven stades distant from Panopeus is Daulis.[90] The people
here are not numerous, but for size and strength they are still the
most famous of the Phocians. The town they say got its name from
the nymph Daulis, who was the daughter of Cephisus. Others say
that the site of the town was once full of trees, and that the ancients
gave the name daula to anything dense. Hence Æschylus calls the
beard of Glaucus (the son of Anthedonius) daulus. It was here at
Daulis according to tradition that the women served up his son to
Tereus, and this was the first recorded instance of cannibalism
among mankind. And the hoopoe, into which tradition says Tereus
was changed, is in size little bigger than a quail, and has on its head
feathers which resemble a crest. And it is a remarkable circumstance
that in this neighbourhood swallows neither breed nor lay eggs, nor
build nests in the roofs of houses: and the Phocians say that when
Philomela became a bird she was in dread both of Tereus and his
country. And at Daulis there is a temple and ancient statue of
Athene, and a still older wooden statue which they say Procne
brought from Athens. There is also in the district of Daulis a place
called Tronis, where a hero-chapel was built to their hero-founder,
who some say was Xanthippus, who won great fame in war, others
Phocus (the son of Ornytion and grandson of Sisyphus). They
honour this hero whoever he is every day, and when the Phocians
bring the victims they pour the blood through a hole on to his tomb,
and consume the flesh there also.
[87] Odyssey, xi. 581.
[88] Iliad, xvii. 306, 307.
[89] xi. 577.
[90] There is probably some mistake in the text here, for instead
of seven stades Dodwell thought the distance twenty-seven, and
Gell thirty-seven or forty-seven.
 CHAPTER V.

T here is also an ascent by Daulis to the heights of Parnassus,

rather longer than the ascent from Delphi but not so steep. As
you turn from Daulis on to the high road for Delphi and go forward,
you will come to a building on the left of the road called Phocicum,
into which the Phocians assemble from each of their towns. It is a
large building, and in it are pillars all the length of the building, and
galleries on each side, where the Phocians sit in assembly. But at
the end of the building there are neither pillars nor galleries, but
statues of Zeus and Athene and Hera, Zeus on his throne, and Hera
standing by on the right, Athene on the left.
As you go on from thence you will come to the Cross-roads, where
they say Œdipus murdered his father.[91] There are records indeed
of the woes of Œdipus in all parts of Greece. So it seems it was
fated. For directly he was born they pierced his ankles, and exposed
him on Mount Cithæron in Platæa. He was brought up at Corinth and
the country near the Isthmus. And Phocis and the Cross-roads here
were polluted by his father’s blood. Thebes has attained even more
celebrity from the marriage of Œdipus and the injustice of Eteocles.
To Œdipus the Cross-roads here and his bloody deed there caused
all his subsequent woes, and the tombs of Laius and his attendant
are in the very middle of the place where the 3 roads meet, and
there are unhewn stones heaped up on them. They say that
Damasistratus, who was king of Platæa, came across their corpses
and buried them.
The high-road from here to Delphi is very steep, and rather difficult
even for a well-equipped traveller. Many varying legends are told
about Delphi, and still more about the oracle of Apollo. For they say
that in the most ancient times it was the oracle of Earth, and that
Earth appointed as priestess of her oracle Daphnis, who was one of
the Mountain Nymphs. And the Greeks have a poem called
Eumolpia, the author of which was they say Musæus the son of
Antiophemus. In this poem Delphi is represented as a joint oracle of
Poseidon and Earth, and we read that Earth delivered her own
oracles, but Poseidon employed Pyrcon as his interpreter. These are
the lines:

“Forthwith Earth uttered forth oracular wisdom,

And with her Pyrcon, famed Poseidon’s priest.”

But afterwards they say Earth gave her share to Themis, and Apollo
received it from Themis: and he they say gave Poseidon for his
share in the oracle Calauria near Trœzen. I have also heard of some
shepherds meeting with the oracle, and becoming inspired by the
vapour, and prophesying through Apollo. But the greatest and most
widespread fame attaches to Phemonoe, who was the first priestess
of Apollo, and the first who recited the oracles in hexameters. But
Bœo, a Phocian woman who composed a Hymn for Delphi, says that
the oracle was set up to the god by Olen and some others that came
from the Hyperboreans, and that Olen was the first who delivered
oracles and in hexameters. Bœo has written the following lines,
“Here Pegasus and divine Aguieus, sons of the
Hyperboreans, raised to thy memory an oracle.”
And enumerating other Hyperboreans she mentions at the end of her
Hymn Olen,

“And Olen who was Phœbus’ first prophet,

And first to put in verse the ancient oracles.”

Tradition however makes women the first utterers of the oracles.

The most ancient temple of Apollo was they say built of laurel, from
branches brought from a tree at Tempe. So that temple would
resemble a hut. And the people of Delphi say the next temple was
built of the wax and wings of bees, and was sent by Apollo to the
Hyperboreans. There is also another tradition that this temple was
built by a Delphian whose name was Pteras, that it got its name from
its builder, from whom also a Cretan city by the addition of one letter
got called Apteræi. For as to the tradition about the fern (Pteris) that
grows on mountains, that they made the temple of this while it was
still green, this I cannot accept. As to the third temple that it was of
brass is no marvel since Acrisius made a brazen chamber for his
daughter, and the Lacedæmonians have still a temple of Athene
Chalciœcus,[92] and the Romans have a forum remarkable for its
size and magnificence with a brazen roof. So that the temple of
Apollo should be brazen is not improbable. In other respects
however I do not accept the legend about the temple being by
Hephæstus, or about the golden songsters that Pindar sang of in
reference to that temple,

“Some golden Charmers sang above the gable.”

I think Pindar wrote this in imitation of Homer’s Sirens.[93] Moreover I

found varying accounts about the destruction of this temple, for
some say it was destroyed by a landslip, others by fire. And the
fourth (built of stone by Trophonius and Agamedes) was burnt down
when Erxiclides was Archon at Athens, in the first year of the 58th
Olympiad, when Diognetus of Croton was victor. And the temple
which still exists was built by the Amphictyones out of the sacred
money, and its architect was the Corinthian Spintharus.
[91] See Sophocles, Œdipus Tyrannus, 733, 734. What I translate
in this Paragraph “Cross-roads” would be literally “the road called
Cleft,” which an English reader would hardly understand.
[92] That is, “Athene of the Brazen House.”
[93] See Odyssey, xii. 39 sq.
 CHAPTER VI.

T hey say the most ancient town here was built by Parnassus, who
was they say the son of the Nymph Cleodora, and his fathers,
(for those called heroes had always two fathers, one a god, one a
man), were they say Poseidon among the gods and Cleopompus
among men. They say Mount Parnassus and the dell Parnassus got
their names from him, and that omens from the flight of birds were
discovered by him. The town built by him was they say destroyed in
Deucalion’s flood, and all the human beings that escaped the flood
followed wolves and other wild beasts to the top of Mount
Parnassus, and from this circumstance called the town which they
built Lycorea (Wolf-town). There is also a different tradition to this,
which makes Lycorus the son of Apollo by the Nymph Corycia, and
that Lycorea was called after him, and the Corycian cavern from the
Nymph. Another tradition is that Celæno was the daughter of
Hyamus the son of Lycorus, and that Delphus from whom Delphi got
its name was the son of Celæno (the daughter of Hyamus) by
Apollo. Others say that Castalius an Autochthon had a daughter
Thyia, who was the first priestess of Dionysus and introduced his
orgies, and that it was from her that females inspired by Dionysus
got generally called Thyiades, and they think Delphus was the son of
Apollo and this Thyia. But some say his mother was Melæne the
daughter of Cephisus. And in course of time the inhabitants called
the town Pytho as well as Delphi, as Homer has shown in his
Catalogue of the Phocians. Those who wish to make genealogies
about everything think that Pythes was the son of Delphus, and that
the town got called Pytho after him when he was king. But the
prevalent tradition is that the dragon slain by Apollo’s arrows rotted
here, and that was why the town was called Pytho from the old
Greek word to rot, which Homer has employed in his account of the
island of the Sirens being full of bones, because those that listened
to their song rotted away.[94] The dragon that was slain by Apollo
was the poets say posted there by Earth to guard her oracle. It is
also said that Crius, the king of Eubœa, had a son of an insolent
disposition, who plundered the temple of the god, and the houses of
the wealthy men. And when he was going to do this a second time,
then the Delphians begged Apollo to shield them from the coming
danger, and Phemonoe (who was then priestess) gave them the
following oracle in hexameters, “Soon will Phœbus send his heavy
arrow against the man who devours Parnassus, and the Cretans
shall purify Phœbus from the blood, and his fame shall never die.”
[94] Odyssey, xii. 46.
 CHAPTER VII.
It appears that the temple at Delphi was plundered from the
beginning. For this Eubœan robber, and a few years later the people
of Phlegyas, and Pyrrhus the son of Achilles also, all laid their hands
on it, and part of Xerxes’ army, but those who enriched themselves
most and longest on the treasures of the god were the Phocian
authorities and the army of the Galati. And last of all it was fated to
experience Nero’s contempt of everything, for he carried off from
Apollo 500 brazen statues, some of gods some of men.
The most ancient contest, and one for which they gave a prize first,
was they say singing a Hymn in honour of Apollo. And the first victor
was Chrysothemis the Cretan, whose father Carmanor is said to
have purified Apollo. And after Chrysothemis they say Philammon
was next victor, and next to him his son Thamyris. Neither Orpheus
they say from his solemn position in respect to the mysteries and his
general elevation of soul, nor Musæus from his imitation of Orpheus
in all things, cared to contend in this musical contest. They say also
that Eleuther carried off the Pythian prize for his loud and sweet
voice. It is said also that Hesiod was not permitted to be a
competitor, because he had not learned to accompany his voice with
the harp. Homer too went to Delphi to enquire what was necessary
for him, and even had he learnt how to play on the harp, the
knowledge would have been useless to him, because of his being
blind. And in the third year of the 48th Olympiad, in which Glaucias
of Croton was victor, the Amphictyones established prizes for
harping as at the first, and added contests for pipes, and for singing
to the pipes. And the victors proclaimed were Cephallen who was
distinguished in singing to the harp, and the Arcadian Echembrotus
for his singing to the pipes, and the Argive Sacadas for his playing
on the pipes. Sacadas also had two other Pythian victories after this.
Then too they first ordained prizes for athletes as at Olympia, with
the exception of the fourhorse races, and they established by law the
long course and double course for boys. And in the second Pythiad
they invited them no longer to contend for prizes, but made the
contest one for a crown only, and stopped singing to the pipes, as
not thinking it pleasing to the ear. For singing to the pipes was most
gloomy kind of music, and elegies and dirges were so sung. The
votive offering of Echembrotus confirms me in what I say, for the
brazen tripod offered by him to Hercules at Thebes has the following
inscription, “Echembrotus the Arcadian offered this tripod to
Hercules, after having been victorious in the contests of the
Amphictyones, and in singing to the Greeks songs and elegies.” So
the contest of singing to the pipes was stopped. Afterwards they
added a chariot race, and Clisthenes the tyrant of Sicyon was
proclaimed victor. And in the eighth Pythiad they added harping
without the accompaniment of the voice, and Agelaus from Tegea
got the crown. And in the 23rd Pythiad they had a race in armour,
and Timænetus from Phlius got the laurel, five Olympiads after
Damaretus of Heræa was victor. And in the 48th Pythiad they
established the race for a pair-horse chariot, and the pair of
Execestides the Phocian was victorious. And in the fifth Pythiad after
this they yoked colts to chariots, and the four-colt car of Orphondas
the Theban came in first. But the pancratium for boys, and the pair of
colts, and the racing colt they instituted many years after the people
of Elis, the pancratium in the 61st Pythiad (when Iolaidas the Theban
was victor), and one Pythiad after the racing colt (when Lycormas of
Larissa was proclaimed victor), and in the 69th Pythiad the pair of
colts (when the Macedonian Ptolemy was victor). For the Ptolemies
delighted to be called Macedonians, as indeed they were. And the
crown of laurel was given to the victors in the Pythian games, for no
other reason I think than that (according to the prevalent report)
Apollo was enamoured of Daphne[95] the daughter of Ladon.
[95] Daphne means laurel. See Wordsworth’s noble Poem, The
Russian Fugitive, Part iii.
 CHAPTER VIII.

S ome think that Amphictyon the son of Deucalion appointed the

general Council of the Greeks, and that was why those who
assembled at the Council were called Amphictyones: but Androtion
in his history of Attica says that originally delegates came to Delphi
from the neighbouring people who were called Amphictiones, and in
process of time the name Amphictyones prevailed. They say too that
the following Greek States attended this general Council, the
Ionians, the Dolopes, the Thessalians, the Ænianes, the Magnetes,
the Malienses, the Phthiotes, the Dorians, the Phocians, the
Locrians who dwelt under Mount Cnemis and bordered upon Phocis.
But when the Phocians seized the temple, and ten years afterwards
the Sacred War came to an end, the Amphictyonic Council was
changed: for the Macedonians obtained admission to it, and the
Phocians and (of the Dorians) the Lacedæmonians ceased to belong
to it, the Phocians because of their sacrilegious outbreak on the
temple, and the Lacedæmonians because they had assisted the
Phocians. But when Brennus led the Galati against Delphi, the
Phocians exhibited greater bravery than any of the Greeks in the
war, and were in consequence restored to the Amphictyonic Council,
and in other respects regained their former position. And the
Emperor Augustus wished that the inhabitants of Nicopolis near
Actium should belong to the Amphictyonic Council, so he joined the
Magnetes and Malienses and Ænianes and Phthiotes to the
Thessalians, and transferred their votes, and those of the Dolopes
who had died out, to the people of Nicopolis. And in my time the
Amphictyones were 30 members. Six came from Nicopolis, six from
Macedonia, six from Thessaly, two from the Bœotians (who were
originally in Thessaly and called Æolians), two from Phocis, and two
from Delphi, one from ancient Doris, one from the Locrians called
Ozolæ, one from the Locrians opposite Eubœa, one from Eubœa,
one from Argos Sicyon Corinth and Megara, and one from Athens.
Athens and Delphi and Nicopolis send delegates to every
Amphictyonic Council: but the other cities I have mentioned only join
the Amphictyonic Council at certain times.
As you enter Delphi there are four temples in a row, the first in ruins,
the next without statues or effigies, the third has effigies of a few of
the Roman Emperors, the fourth is called the temple of Athene
Pronoia. And the statue in the ante-chapel is the votive offering of
the Massaliotes, and is larger in size than the statue within the
temple. The Massaliotes are colonists of the Phocæans in Ionia, and
were part of those who formerly fled from Phocæa from Harpagus
the Mede, but, after having beaten the Carthaginians in a naval
engagement, obtained the land which they now occupy, and rose to
great prosperity. This votive offering of the Massaliotes is of brass.
The golden shield which was offered to Athene Pronoia by Crœsus
the Lydian was taken away (the Delphians said) by Philomelus. Near
this temple is the sacred enclosure of the hero Phylacus, who,
according to the tradition of the Delphians, protected them against
the invasion of the Persians. In the part of the gymnasium which is in
the open air was once they say a wild wood where Odysseus, when
he went to Autolycus and hunted with the sons of Autolycus, was
wounded on the knee by a boar.[96] As you turn to the left from the
gymnasium, and descend I should say about 3 stades, is the river
called Plistus, which falls into the sea at Cirrha the haven of the
Delphians. And as you ascend from the gymnasium to the temple on
the right of the road is the water Castalia which is good to drink.
Some say it got its name from Castalia a local woman, others say
from a man called Castalius. But Panyasis, the son of Polyarchus, in
the poem he wrote about Hercules says that Castalia was the
daughter of Achelous. For he says about Hercules,
“Crossing with rapid feet snow-crown’d Parnassus he
came to the immortal fountain of Castalia, the daughter of
Achelous.”
I have also heard that the water of Castalia is a gift of the river
Cephisus. Alcæus indeed so represents it in his Prelude to Apollo,
and his statement is confirmed by the people of Lilæa, who believe
that the local cakes and other things, which they throw into the
Cephisus on certain stated days, reappear in the Castalia.
[96] Odyssey, xix. 428-451.