Ancient Lilaia

Ruins of an important Phocian city in central Greece, inhabited since the 3rd millennium BC and named after the nymph Lilaia, daughter of the river god Cephissus. Listed in Homer's Iliad among nine Phocian towns that sent warriors to Troy. Its fortification walls were destroyed by Philip II of Macedon in 346 BC and later rebuilt. Pausanias recorded a theatre, agora, baths, and temples of Apollo and Artemis at the site. The springs of the Cephissus River rise nearby.