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Location: Paardeberg Drift Orange Free State South Africa

The Sacred War—the fourth initiated by the …

Years: 339BCE - 339BCE

The Sacred War—the fourth initiated by the Amphictyonic League—has followed a sequence of events much like those that had led to the third: Phocian cultivation of sacred lands; punishment by fine; refusal to pay; and a declaration of war by the Amphictyonic League.

Philip enters Greece in November 339, hoping to rush the Thebans into honoring their alliance and letting him through into Attica.

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