The Persians sack and burn several sanctuaries …
Years: 480BCE - 480BCE
September
The Persians sack and burn several sanctuaries in the northeast corner of Phocis, including the temple of the oracle of Apollo at Abae, which was one of those consulted by the Lydian king Croesus.
Locations
People
Groups
- Polytheism (“paganism”)
- Athens, City-State of
- Greece, classical
- Persian people
- Sparta, Kingdom of
- Corinth, City-State of
- Thessalian League
- Peloponnesian League (Spartan Alliance)
- Achaemenid, or First Persian, Empire
Topics
- Younger Subboreal Period
- Iron Age Europe
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Greco-Persian Wars, Early
- Artemisium, Battle of
- Persian Invasion of Greece, Second
- Thermopylae, Battle of
