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{{Short description|Town in ancient Greece}}
'''Amphicleia''' or '''Amphikleia''' ({{langx|grc|Ἀμφίκλεια}})<ref>{{Cite Stephanus|''s.v''}}</ref> or '''Amphicaea''' or '''Amphikaia''' (Ἀμφίκαια)<ref name=Herodotus>{{Cite Herodotus|8.33}}</ref> was a [[ancient Greece|Greek]] town in the north of [[ancient Phocis]], distant 60 [[stadion (unit)|stadia]] from [[Lilaea]], and 15 stadia from [[Tithronium]]. It was destroyed by the [[Achaemenid Empire|Persian]] army of [[Xerxes I of Persia|Xerxes]] in his [[Greco-Persian Wars|invasion of Greece]] (480&nbsp;BCE). Although [[Herodotus]] calls it Amphicaea, following the most ancient traditions, the [[Amphictyonic League]] gave it the name of Amphicleia in their decree respecting rebuilding the town (346&nbsp;BCE). It also bore for some time the name of '''Ophiteia''' (Ὀφιτεία), in consequence of a legend, which [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] relates. The place was celebrated in the time of Pausanias for the worship of [[Dionysus]], to which an inscription refers, found at the site of the ancient town.<ref name=Herodotus/><ref>{{Cite Pausanias|10|3|1}}-3, 10.33.9</ref>

The site of the ancient town is occupied by the cemetery of the modern town of [[Amfikleia]].<ref>{{Cite Barrington|55}}</ref><ref>{{Cite DARE|23121}}</ref> It is also the site of a [[Tower of Amfikleia|medieval tower]] (Paliopyrgos), which has been built with extensive reuse of [[spolia]] from the acropolis of Amphicleia.<ref>{{Tabula Imperii Byzantini | volume = 1 | page = 122}}</ref>

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