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	ORCHOMENUS - LoveToKnow Article on ORCHOMENUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In prehistoric times Orchomenus, as is proved alike by archaeological finds and by an extensive cycle of legends, was one of the most prosperous towns of Greece.
		In the 4th century Orchomenus was actuated throughout by an anti-Theban policy, which may have been nothing more than a recrudescence of old-time rivalry, but seems chiefly inspired by aversion to the newly established democracy at Thebes.
		Orchomenus fell for a time into the hands of the Mantineians; in 370 it held aloof from the new Arcadian League which the Mantineians were organizing.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /O/OR/ORCHOMENUS.htm (1064 words)

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		Orchomenus Orchomenusôrkŏm´Ĭnes, ancient city of Boeotia, central Greece, NW of Lake Copaïs.
		He made important excavations at Olympia, Aegina, and Orchomenus and wrote the authoritative Meisterwerke der griechischen Plastik [masterpieces of Greek sculpture] (1893), of which a smaller edition was late...
		Sometime before 1000 BC, Thebes was settled by Boeotians and rapidly replaced Orchomenus as the region's leading city.
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	Encyclopedia: Gaia (mythology)
		His son by Elara, the giant Tityas, is therefore sometimes said to be a son of Gaia, the earth goddess, and Elara.
		In Greek mythology, Elara was the daughter of King Orchomenus and mother of Tityas.
		In Greek mythology, Pontus (or Pontos, sea) was an ancient, pre-Olympian sea-god, son of Gaia and Aether, the Earth and Sky.
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	Boeotië - Wikipedia
		In een bekende legende was Thebe met zijn Cadmische bevolking een vesting en Orchomenus, waar de Minyers woonden, een ondernemende handelsstad.
		Andere belangrijke steden waren Orchomenus, Plataea en Thespiae.
		De Thebanen probeerden continu de andere steden op te slokken en een gezamenlijke staat te vormen, precies zoals Athene dat had gedaan met de Attische stadsstaten.
	nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boeoti%C3%AB (727 words)

	Orchomenus -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		In the Archaic period, Orchomenus was a member of the Calaurian League, but political supremacy in Boeotia passed to Thebes.
		The tradition is that the daughters of Minyas, king of Orchomenus, having despised the rites of the god, were driven mad by Dionysus and ate the flesh of one of their children; as punishment they were turned...
		Controlled by the Boeotian city of Orchomenus (q.v.) in the 5th century BC, it was the scene of the battle in which Philip II of Macedon defeated Thebes and Athens (338 BC).
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	Orchomenus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A king in Greek mythology, Orchomenus was the father of Elara.
		This article relating to Greek mythology is a stub.
		Orchomenus, or Orkhómenos, was a city in Greece, situated on the Cephissus river where it emptied into Lake Copais.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orchomenus (129 words)

	ORCHOMENUS (local form on coins and inscriptions, Erchomenos) - Encyclopedia Britannica - ORCHOMENUS (local form on ...
		Orchomenus is mentioned in the Homeric catalogue with the epithet 7roXu?1Xos.
		In the 5th century it was overshadowed by its southern neighbour Mantineia, with whom it is henceforth generally found to be at variance.
		In 418 B.C. Orchomenus fell for a time into the hands of the Mantineians; in 370 it held aloof from the new Arcadian League which the Mantineians were organizing.
	www.jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Encyclopedia_Britannica/ORC_PAI/ORCHOMENUS_local_form_on_coins.html (1503 words)

	Geographia: Mainland Greece
		In the west is Mount Helicon and in the centre was Lake Copais.
		The most famous king of Orchomenus was Athamas, an Aeolid from Thessaly, but the city was founded by Andreus.
		Phocis was a region, west of Boeotia, on northern coast of Gulf of Corinth.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/mainland.html (2734 words)

	TeuNet - Boiotien/Orchomenos - quellen/Diodor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		During their term of office the Thebans, taking the field with a large army against Orchomenus, aimed to reduce the city to slavery, but when Epameinondas advised them that any who aimed at supremacy over the Greeks ought to safeguard by their generous treatment what they had achieved by their valour, they changed their mind.
		Accordingly they reckoned the people of Orchomenus as belonging to the territory of their allies, and later, having made friends of the Phocians, Aetolians, and Locrians, returned to Boeotia again.
		The officials arrested the knights from Orchomenus and brought them before the assembly, where the people voted to execute them, to sell the inhabitants of Orchomenus into slavery, and to raze the city.
	www.teu-net.de /Orchomenos/quellen/diodor.html (446 words)

	AGRIONIA - LoveToKnow Article on AGRIONIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		, an ancient Greek festival, which was celebrated annually at Orchomenus in Boeotia and elsewhere, in honor of Dionysus Agrionius, by women and priests at night.
		The tradition is that the daughters of Minyas, king of Orchomenus, having despised the rites of the god, were seized with frenzy and ate the flesh of one of their children.
		At this festival it was originally the custom for the priest of the god to pursue a woman of the Minyan family with a drawn sword and kill her.
	85.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AG/AGRIONIA.htm (123 words)

	Genealogy: Aeolids 2 (Corinth & Orchomenus)
		The second page of the genealogy of the Aeolids (descendants of Aeolus), displaying the family trees of Sisyphus from Corinth and Athamas from Orchomenus.
		It should be noted that Schoeneus was sometimes seen as the king of Orchomenus or that of Arcadia.
		Sometimes, Atalanta was seen as the daughter of Iasus, instead of Schoeneus.
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	The Plain Of Orchomenus, Livadia, Chaeronea
		The next day was occupied in a tour across the plain to Orchomenus, then to Chaeronea, and back to Livádia in the evening, so as to start from thence for the passes to Delphi.
		Our ride was, as it were, round an isosceles triangle, beginning with the right base angle, going to Orchomenus north-east as the vertex, then to Chaeronea at the left base angle, and home again over the high spurs of mountain which protrude into the plain between the two base angles of our triangle.
		This river appears to be the main feeder of the Copaic lake, coming down, as we saw it, muddy and cold with snow-water from the heights of Parnassus.
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	Boeotia - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Of the two great centres of legends, Thebes, with its Cadmean population, figures as a military stronghold, and Orchomenus, the home of the Minyae, as an enterprising commercial city.
		The importance of the latter has been confirmed by its archaeological remains (notably the "Treasury of Minyas").
		In historical times, the leading city of Boeotia was Thebes, whose central position and military strength made it a suitable capital; the other major towns were Orchomenus, Plataea, and Thespiae.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Boeotia (1004 words)

	Orchomenus (town) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Orchomenus is an ancient city of Boeotia in Greece which was the setting for many Greek Myths.
		First mentioned in the Catalogue of Ships section of The Iliad it was the principal city of and first to mint coins until the rise of Thebes.
		Faithfully playing the part of the "I haven't read it, but I'm gonna condemn this communist filth anyhow" conservative, the reviewer's complaints were based on readi...
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		The judges of the performances were Greeks chosen out of other cities; his hostility to the Thebans being implacable, half of whose territory he took away and consecrated to Apollo and Jupiter, ordering that out of the revenue compensation should be made to the gods for the riches himself had taken from them.
		The marshes were filled with blood, and the lake with dead bodies, insomuch that to this day many bows, helmets, fragments of iron, breastplates, and swords of barbarian make continue to be found buried deep in mud, two hundred years after the fight.
		At Rome, Cinna and Carbo were now using injustice and violence towards persons of the greatest eminence, and many of them to avoid this tyranny repaired, as to a safe harbour, to Sylla's camp, where, in a short space, he had about him the aspect of a senate.
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	Orchomenus -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A king in (The mythology of the ancient Greeks) Greek mythology, Orchomenus was the father of (Click link for more info and facts about Elara) Elara.
		Orchomenus, or Orkhómenos, was a city in (A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil) Greece, situated on the (Click link for more info and facts about Cephissus) Cephissus river where it emptied into Lake Copais.
		It was an important city in the (Click link for more info and facts about Mycenaean period) Mycenaean period, and is presently an important (The site of an archeological exploration) archeological site.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/O/Or/Orchomenus.htm (180 words)

	Classical Myth- Barry Powell, Third Edition Chapter 10 -- Key Terms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Wife of Athamas of Orchomenus, sister of Semelê; given the infant Dionysus to raise.
		Thracian king who resisted Dionysus; his is the earliest myth of many that record the fate of those who resisted the god.
		Daughters of King Minyas of Orchomenus who rejected Dionysus; punished by being driven to consume their own children.
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	Etext Library - Center on Religion and Democracy
		In like manner, when he speaks of cities that have plenty of gold, he mentions Orchomenus, to which he joins Thebes in Egypt.
		But these seas becoming afterwards more frequented, the Greeks planted along the coasts a greater number of colonies, which traded with the barbarous nations, and at the same time preserved an intercourse with their mother country.
		In consequence of this, Orchomenus began to decline, till at length it was lost in the crowd of the other cities of Greece.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /etcbin/toccer-reldem?id=MonLaws.xml&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=344&division=div2 (703 words)

	minyas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In Greek mythology, Minyas was the founder of Orchomenus or son of king Orchomenus, depending on the story.
		Minyas was also the title of an early Greek epic poem, probably dating to the 6th century B.C.E., which is now lost and whose author is unknown.
		The very few fragments that survive (available in Greek in Davies' and Bernabé's editions, and in Greek and English translation edited by M.L. West) seem to have nothing to do with Minyas or Orchomenus, however: they all concern the story of Theseus' and Peirithous' descent into the Underworld.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Minyas.html (193 words)

	THE DEATH OF OEDIPUS
		As is well known, the war between Thebes and Orchomenus, documented in many ancient sources, reflects an historical event confirmed by archaeological evidence.
		But it is easy to reply with the argument that the entire Greek historical tradition dealing with Mycenean times associated on the same level the two expeditions of the Argives against Thebes and the one of the Greeks against Troy, as is reflected also in the poems of the epic cycle.
		A slightly different version is told by Pausanias (9.37.2-5), according to whom Erginus was not killed by Heracles, but compelled to make peace with the Thebans, thereafter neglecting every further action against Thebes in the effort to restore his former wealth and in the desire to have children.
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	Orchomenus (town) - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Orchomenus (town) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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	Ancient coinage of Boeotia
		This fact points to the existence of commercial relations between Orchomenus and Aegina, and perhaps accounts for the introduction into Boeotia of a system of coinage modelled upon that of Aegina.
		The early silver coins of Orchomenus differ from those of the other Boeotian towns in that they are without the buckler characteristic of the Boeotian Federal money.
		This type was not adopted at Orchomenus until the fourth century B.C. »WW »SNG B »ANS
	www.snible.org /coins/hn/boeotia.html (2770 words)

	W.M. Leake, Travels in Northern Greece Vol. II, chapter 13-1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Strabo states, that its distance from Orchomenus was twenty stades, which is sufficiently correct, and that the Melas flowed between them, which is true as to the northern Melas, though it is not crossed in the road.
		The grove of Trophonius furnishes a neighbouring example, and perhaps that of the Graces at Orchomenus was another.
		The practice was closely connected with the peculiar character of the people, whose sense of the inviolability of the sacred places, was only exceeded by their jealous mistrust of one another.
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	Dictionary: Minis to Nyctimene, Greek Mythology Link.
		Minyas is the man who owned a marvellous treasure in Orchomenus (the city in northern Boeotia).
		The Minyans, people of northern Boeotia are called after him, and the ARGONAUTS were often referred to as Minyans.
		Minyas was son either of Chryses 1 (son of Poseidon), or of Aeolus 1, or of Orchomenus 3, or of Poseidon himself.
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	Hercules- ancient Greek & Roman mythology
		Eurystheus grew up to become ruler of Greece and played a key role in the myths of Hercules.
		One year Hercules disfigured a herald who was sent to collect the tribute, thus starting a war.
		With Athena's aid he defeated the King of Orchomenus, allowing Creon to become king.
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	Prime Focus Page 8
		The story is so important to the Greeks, they named their country after one of the children.
		Too bad the messenger had been bribed by Ino to state that only the sacrifice of his firstborn son and daughter would save his land.
		Dutifully Athamas led his children to the altar, but just as he was about to draw his knife across his son's throat, the magical ram Chrysomallus arrived.
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	Orchomenus Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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	Camera Concord Digital (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		How a city of 80,000 people could take, accommodate and dispose of that many prisoners is not clear, especially since they camera concord digital reported that Ahuitzotl sacrificed them personally.
		Orchomenus, but were shipwrecked and rescued by the Argonauts.
		This is not the first time in History, "so-called" academic "scientist"had tried the same, not only against Spanish camera concord digital investigators.
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	The Royal House of the Labdacids - Ino and Athamas
		He marries his first wife Nephele in Orchomenus who bears him two children Phrixos and Helle.
		When Orchomenus is devastated by drought, Athamas seeks the counsel of the Oracle of Delphi.
		Io, who hates Athamas’; children of his first marriage, bribes the envoys of the Oracle to convince Athamas that in order to ensure the survival of Orchomenus, Helle and Phrixos must be sacrificed.
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