Listed 3 sub titles with search on: Various locations for wider area of: "FOKIDA Prefecture STEREA HELLAS" .
DELFI (Ancient sanctuary) FOKIDA
Schiste (he schiste hodos, the name of the road leading from Delphi
into Central Greece, was more particularly applied to the spot where the road
divided into two, and which was called treis keleuthoi, reckoning the road to
Delphi as one of the three. Of the other two roads, the NE. led to Daulis; the
SE. parted into two, one leading to Trachis and Lebadeia, the other to Ambrysus
and Stiris. At the spot where the three roads met was the tomb of Laius and his
servant, who were here slain by Oedipus. It must have stood at the entrance of
the Zimeno Derveni, or opening between the mountains Cirphis and Parnassus, which
leads to Delphi. The road from this point becomes very steep and rugged towards
Delphi, as Pausanias has described it. (Aeschyl. Oed. Tyr. 733; Eurip. Phoen.
38; Paus. ix. 2. § 4, x. 5. § 3; leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 105.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
FOKIS (Ancient area) GREECE
Cachales (Kalales), a river of Phocis, rising in Mt. Parnassus, and
flowing by Tithorea into the Cephissus. (Paus. x. 32. § 11; Leake, Northern Greece,
vol. ii. pp. 78, 81.)
OZOLEA LOKRIS (Ancient area) FOKIDA
Hylaethus or Hylaetus (Hulaithos or Hulaitos), a river in Locris Ozolis,
flowing through Locris near the eastern frontier of Aetolia into the Corinthian
gulf. Leake supposes it to be the modern Morno, and to have derived its name from
Hyle, a town in Phocis mentioned by Stephanus B. (Dicaearch. 67; Steph. B. s.
v. Hule; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 619.)
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