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Crissa or Cirrha is an ancient city of Phocis founded by the Cretans. It is mentioned for the first time by Homer in the Catalog of the ships of the Iliad. It was razed by the Greeks formed in alliance during the first sacred war (beginning of the sixth century BC). The stake of this war was the control of Delphi from where the Cretans had been expelled gradually, undoubtedly in the wake of the Dorian invasions. They had Crissa left and the Heraclides could not stand it. The god Apollo definitively supplants the Cretan goddess. Tradition and poets like Pindar claim that Apollo chased Themis from Delphi, to set up his own Oracle.
To the north of the ruins is today the village of Chrisso (Χρισσό). Notes and edit the code
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