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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 467 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CRISA, or CRISSA , in See also:ancient See also:geography, one of the See also:oldest cities of See also:Greece, situated in See also:Phocis, on one of the spurs of See also:Parnassus. Its name occurs both in the Iliad and in the Homeric See also:Hymns, where it is described as a powerful See also:place, with a See also:rich and fertile territory, reaching to the See also:sea, and including within its limits the See also:sanctuary of Pytho. As the See also:town of See also:Delphi See also:grew up around the See also:shrine, and the seaport of Cirrha arose on the Crisean Gulf, Crisa gradually lost much of its importance. By the ancients themselves the name of Cirrha was so often substituted for that of Crisa, that it soon became doubtful whether 1 The value of See also:gold See also:mined in 1899–1902 was greater, annually, than the product of 1905 or 1906; up to 1905 the greatest See also:annual value was in 1900, $18,093,539. these names indicated the same See also:city or not. The question was practically settled by the investigations of H. N. Ulrichs. From its position Cirrha commanded the approach to Delphi, and its inhabitants became See also:obnoxious to the Greeks from the heavy tolls which they exacted from the devotees who thronged to the shrine. The Amphictyonic See also:Council declared See also:war (the first Sacred War) against the Criseans in 595 B.C., and having taken the town, razed it to the ground, and consecrated its territory to the See also:temple at Delphi. The See also:plunder of the town was sold to defray the expenses of the Pythian See also:games. In 339 the See also:people of Amphissa began to rebuild the town of Cirrha and to cultivate the See also:plain.

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act brought on the second Sacred War, the conduct of which was entrusted by the Amphictyons to See also:Philip of Macedon, who took Amphissa (mod. Salona) in the following See also:year. The ruins of Crisa may be still seen where the See also:ravine of the Pleistus joins the plain ; its name is probably preserved by the See also:modern Chryso. See J. G. Frazer's See also:Pausanias, v. 459 (See also:note on x. 37.5). (E.

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