Amphicleia

Amphicleia, also recorded as Amphikleia, Amphicaea or Amphikaia, was a Greek town in the north of ancient Phocis, sixty stadia from Lilaea and fifteen stadia from Tithronium. It was destroyed by the Persian army of Xerxes during his invasion of Greece in 480 BC. Herodotus, following the oldest traditions, calls it Amphicaea, but the Amphictyonic League gave it the name Amphicleia in a decree ordering the town rebuilding in 346 BC. It also bore for a time the name Ophiteia, after a legend recorded by Pausanias. In the time of Pausanias the town was noted for its worship of Dionysus, to which a surviving inscription found at the site refers.