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.
Locations
People
Groups
- Thebes, City-State of
- Greece, classical
- Macedon, Argead Kingdom of
- Boeotian League
- Athens, City-State of
- Athenian Empire or Confederacy, Second
Topics
- Iron Age Europe
- Iron Age Cold Epoch
- Classical antiquity
- Macedon, Rise of
- Sacred War, Fourth (Amphissean War)
