Daulis was an ancient Greek

Ancient Greece

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 city in Phocis

Phocis

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According to Greek mythology

Greek mythology

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, Daulis was the hometown of Tereus

Tereus

In Greek mythology, Tereus was a Thracian king, the son of Ares and husband of Procne. Procne and Tereus had a son, Itys.Tereus desired his wife's sister, Philomela. He forced himself upon her, then cut her tongue out and held her captive so she could never tell anyone. He told his wife that her...

. The city is mentioned by Homer

Homer

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 and it is said to be named after a nymph

Nymph

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 Daulis, a daughter of the river-god Cephissus.

Daulis was the city at the end of the road not taken by Oedipus

Oedipus

Oedipus was a mythical Greek king of Thebes. He fulfilled a prophecy that said he would kill his father and marry his mother, and thus brought disaster on his city and family...

. See: The Road to Daulis: Psychoanalysis, Psychology, and Classical Mythology by Robert Eisner (Syracuse University Press, 1987; ISBN 0815602103, 97808156021010).

During the Greco-Persian Wars

Greco-Persian Wars

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, Daulis was destroyed for the first time in 480 BC

480 BC

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. In 395 BC

395 BC

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, the city was attacked by Thebes

Thebes, Greece

Thebes is a city in Greece, situated to the north of the Cithaeron range, which divides Boeotia from Attica, and on the southern edge of the Boeotian plain. It played an important role in Greek myth, as the site of the stories of Cadmus, Oedipus, Dionysus and others...

. In 346 BC

346 BC

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Daulis was destroyed again during the so called Third Sacred War

Third Sacred War

The Third Sacred War was fought between the forces of the Delphic Amphictyonic League, principally represented by Thebes, and latterly by Philip II of Macedon, and the Phocians...

. In 220 BC

220 BC

Year 220 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Laevinus/Catulus and Scaevola/Philo...

, the city was attacked by the Aetolians. In 198 BC

198 BC

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, the Romans

Ancient Rome

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 occupied Daulis by a stratagem.

In Late Antiquity

Late Antiquity

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, Daulis was a seat of a bishop

Bishop

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Remains of the city walls can be seen today near the modern town Davlia.