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	Orchomenus - LoveToKnow 1911
		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.
		The most remarkable relic of the early power of Orchomenus is the so-called "treasury" (of "Minyas") which resembles the buildings of similar style at Mycenae (see Mycenae), and is almost exactly the same size as the treasury of Atreus.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Orchomenus (1109 words)

	Orchomenus (town)
		Orchomenus is an ancient city of Boeotia in Greece, which was the setting for many early Greek Myths.
		First mentioned in the Catalogue of Ships[?] section of The Iliad, it was the principal city of Boeotia and first to mint coins until the rise of Thebes.
		It was destroyed by the Boeotian Confederacy[?] in 364 BC, and has remained little more than a village since.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/or/Orchomenus_(town).html (65 words)

	The Peloponnesian War -- Chapter 14 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
		The towns subject to the Athenians, hearing of the capture of Amphipolis and of the terms accorded to it, and of the gentleness of Brasidas, felt most strongly encouraged to change their condition, and sent secret messages to him, begging him to come on to them; each wishing to be the first to revolt.
		The capture of the town was effected before the great body of the Toronæans had recovered from their surprise and confusion; but the conspirators and the citizens of their party at once joined the invaders.
		Meanwhile Mende revolted, a town in Pallene and a colony of the Eretrians, and was received without scruple by Brasidas, in spite of its having evidently come over during the armistice, on account of certain infringements of the truce alleged by him against the Athenians.
	www.litrix.com /pelop/pelop014.htm (8275 words)

	Minyas, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		The power of the Minyans of Orchomenus in ancient times is shown in that Thebes paid tribute to them, and the evidence of their prosperity may be derived from the words of Achilles when he refused the gifts of Agamemnon:
		Orchomenus was built in the district of Andreis, called after the first settler, Andreus, son of the river god Peneus [Pau.9.34.6].
		After these events, the kingdom of Minyan Orchomenus was taken by Ascalaphus 1 and Ialmenus 1, sons of Ares and Astyoche 5, daughter of Actor 7, son of Azeus, son of Clymenus 2.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Minyas.html (3270 words)

	Chaeroneia - LoveToKnow 1911
		The latter's enormous numerical superiority was neutralized by Sulla's judicious choice of ground and the steadiness of his legionaries; the Asiatics after the failure of their attack were worn down and almost annihilated.
		Chaeroneia is also notable as the birthplace of Plutarch, who returned to his native town in old age, and was held in honour by its citizens for many successive generations.
		The site of the town is partly occupied by the village of Kapraena; the ancient citadel was known as the Petrachus, and there is a theatre cut in the rock.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Chaeroneia (389 words)

	Chapter 26. Sacrifice of the King’s Son. Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden Bough
		In ancient Greece there seems to have been at least one kingly house of great antiquity of which the eldest sons were always liable to be sacrificed in room of their royal sires.
		Many of the family, Xerxes was informed, had fled to foreign lands to escape this doom; but some of them had returned long afterwards, and being caught by the sentinels in the act of entering the town-hall were wreathed as victims, led forth in procession, and sacrificed.
		But in time the divine fury infected even the royal damsels in their quiet chamber; they were seized with a fierce longing to partake of human flesh, and cast lots among themselves which should give up her child to furnish a cannibal feast.
	www.bartleby.com /196/65.html (1527 words)

	Mycenaean Origin of Greek Mythology: Chapter II. Mycenaean Centers and Mythological Centers: 7. Northern Boeotia and ...
		Orchomenus has always been famous for its bee-hive tomb, the so-called treasury of Minyas, which now is ruined but rivals the best examples of these stately domes at Mycenae.
		Orchomenus and Thebes in Egypt are mentioned side by side as the richest towns of the world.
		She is said to be the daughter of Salmoneus, and Salmoneus is the eponymous hero of the town of Salmone in the Alpheus Valley.
	www.sacred-texts.com /cla/mog/mog10.htm (8156 words)

	Geographia: Mainland Greece
		The town Piraeus, south-west of Athens, was its main port.
		In the west is Mount Helicon and in the centre was Lake Copais.
		The town Plataea was only important during the classical period, where the site outside of the town, became one of the most important battle in Greek history: the Battle of Plataea.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/mainland.html (2741 words)

	The Plain Of Orchomenus, Livadia, Chaeronea
		All these Botian towns were, of course, fortified, and all of them lay close to the hills ; for the swampy plain was unhealthy, and in older days the rising lake was said to have swallowed up towns which had been built close upon its margin.
		And here we found the cause of the cultivation of the upper plain—here was the town of Lebadea (Livâdia), famed of old for the august oracle of Trophonius in later days the Turkish capital of the surrounding province.
		The whole aspect of the town was not unlike a Swiss town ; indeed, all the features of the upland country are ever reminding the traveller of his Swiss experience.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles19/greece-9.shtml (4562 words)

	Gutenkarte » The History of the Peloponnesian War » Chapter 11
		Two Messinese battalions in garrison at Mylae laid an ambush for the party landing from the ships, but were routed with great slaughter by the Athenians and their allies, who thereupon assaulted the fortification and compelled them to surrender the Acropolis and to march with them upon Messina.
		The same summer the Athenians sent thirty ships round Peloponnese under Demosthenes, son of Alcisthenes, and Procles, son of Theodorus, and sixty others, with two thousand heavy infantry, against Melos, under Nicias, son of Niceratus; wishing to reduce the Melians, who, although islanders, refused to be subjects of Athens or even to join her confederacy.
		The foundation of this town, evidently meant to annoy Euboea (the passage across to Cenaeum in that island being a short one), at first caused some alarm at Athens, which the event however did nothing to justify, the town never giving them any trouble.
	www.gutenkarte.org /section/7142/11 (3618 words)

	boeotia - NumisWiki, The Collaborative Numismatics Project
		Haliartus was destroyed by the Persians in B.C. There are silver coins earlier than that date, from the stater downwards, distinguished by the aspirate (⊟), the initial letter of Haliartus, placed either in the side-openings of the shield, or in the centre of the incuse on the reverse (Num.
		The town was subsequently restored, and issued staters, andc., in the fifth century.
		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.
	www.forumancientcoins.com /numiswiki/view.asp?key=boeotia (2778 words)

	ORCHOMENUS (local form... - Online Information article about ORCHOMENUS (local form...
		ORCHOMENUS (local form on coins and inscriptions, Erchomenos)
		cycle of legends, was one of the most prosperous towns of Greece.
		Lysander and Agesilaus in their attacks upon Thebes, and when war was renewed between the Thebans and Spartans in 379 Orchomenus again sided with the latter.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /ORC_PAI/ORCHOMENUS_local_form_on_coins_.html (1821 words)

	Athamas - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
		The king of Orchomenus in Greek mythology, Athamas ("rich harvest") was married first to the goddess Nephele with whom he had the twins Phrixus and Helle.
		Phrixus and Helle, were hated by their stepmother, Ino.
		Ino hatched a devious plot to get rid of the twins, roasting all the towns crop seeds so they would not grow.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Athamus (478 words)

	History of the Peloponnesian War, by Thucydides (chapter14)
		Observing this, the Athenians sent garrisons to the different towns, as far as was possible at such short notice and in winter; while Brasidas sent dispatches to Lacedaemon asking for reinforcements, and himself made preparations for building galleys in the Strymon.
		The capture of the town was effected before the great body of the Toronaeans had recovered from their surprise and confusion; but the conspirators and the citizens of their party at once joined the invaders.
		In the midst of his designs upon the towns in question, a galley arrived with the commissioners carrying round the news of the armistice, Aristonymus for the Athenians and Athenaeus for the Lacedaemonians.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /t/thucydides/crawley/chapter14.html (8210 words)

	The Peloponnesian War -- Chapter 11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
		Two Messinese battalions in garrison at Mylæ laid an ambush for the party landing from the ships, but were routed with great slaughter by the Athenians and their allies, who thereupon assaulted the fortification and compelled them to surrender the Acropolis and to march with them upon Messina.
		The foundation of this town, evidently meant to annoy Euboea (the passage across to Cenæum in that island being a short one), at first caused some alarm at Athens, which the event however did nothing to justify, the town never giving them any trouble.
		The share of the Athenians was captured on the voyage home; the arms now deposited in the Attic temples are three hundred panoplies, which the Acarnanians set apart for Demosthenes, and which he brought to Athens in person, his return to his country after the Ætolian disaster being rendered less hazardous by this exploit.
	www.litrix.com /pelop/pelop011.htm (3725 words)

	Plutarch: Life of Cleomenes (2) - translation
		There remained not above 1000 men in the town, all the rest having retired to Messene with their wives and children, before there was any possibility of pursuing them.
		In consequence of this determination, he sent the two men to Messene, with a herald in his own name, to make the Megalopolitans an offer of their town, on condition that they would renounce the Achaeans, and declare themselves his friends and allies.
		In his march from thence he dislodged the garrison of Olygyrtus, and then proceeded by Orchomenus; by which means he not only inspired this people with fresh courage, but came to be considered by the enemy as a most able general, and a man capable of the greatest undertakings;
	www.attalus.org /old/cleomenes2.html (5137 words)

	Detail Page
		Thebes was known for its first-rate army, which included a strong Cavalry arm, and throughout its history the city usually dominated all of Boeotia.
		Along with its neighbor and rival Orchomenus, Thebes seems to have been preeminent in the earlier centuries of Mycenaean Civilization, ca.
		Archaeological excavations at Thebes, hampered by the site's modern town, have yielded portions of a Mycenaean palace as well as Linear B tablets and Near Eastern seal stones (which may add credence to the legend that King Cadmus originally came from the Levant).
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0491 (747 words)

	Sylla by Plutarch
		As for you, when they ask you where you betrayed your general, remember and say, at Orchomenus." His men rallying again at these words, and two cohorts coming to his succour from the right wing, he led them to the charge and turned the day.
		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.
	www.4literature.net /Plutarch/Sylla/8.html (972 words)

	Hercules- ancient Greek & Roman mythology
		Hercules' home town made annual tribute payments to Orchomenus.
		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.
	www.calgarycoin.com /reference/myth/myhercul.htm (1249 words)

	Agis II
		In fact, they had also betrayed their own allies of the Peloponnesian League, because the Peace of Nicias was hardly beneficial to Corinth.
		Agis counteracted by preparing an attack on a town that the historian Thucydides calls Leuctra and may or may not be identical to the town in Boeotia.
		When a small Athenian army arrived, together with ambassador Alcibiades, the Argives listened to his advise to attack the pro-Spartan town Orchomenus, which was situated along the road from Corinth to the southern Peloponnese.
	www.livius.org /ag-ai/agis/agis_ii.html (1179 words)

	I'll Be Home For Solstice
		It was from an innkeeper in the relatively nearby village of Orchomenus who was asking for the demigod’s help.
		And if he went to Orchomenus, he’d be beating himself up over breaking his word to his mother.
		The journey took him the better part of the day, but finally he reached the town and met with Typhoeus.
	www.angelfire.com /pa3/quietwolf/solstice.html (4127 words)

	Detail Page
		The second city was Orchomenus, in the plain's northwest corner, opposite Thebes.
		The historically important Boeotian town of Plataea lay just north of Cithaeron.
		Soon thereafter the towns formed a Boeotian League, under Theban dominance, for mutual defense and a jointly decided foreign policy.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0098 (370 words)

	King Eurystheus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12)
		When Hercules was an infant, Hera sent two snakes to his cradle to kill him, but even then Hercules showed his divine birth by killing the snakes.
		Later in life Hercules killed a messenger sent to his town to collect the annual tribute to the king of his hometown, Orchomenus.
		This started a war, but with Athena’s help, Hercules defeated Orchomenus, allowing Creon to become king.Creon gave him his daughter Megara in marriage as a reward.
	people.uncw.edu /deagona/herakles/children/king.htm (210 words)

	Hesiod
		One, as early as Thucydides, states that Hesiod had been warned by an oracle that he would die in Nemea, and so fled to Locris, where he was killed at the local temple to Nemean Zeus, and buried.
		The other tradition, first mentioned in an epigram of Chersios of Orchomenus[?] written in the seventh century BC, claims that he was buried at Orchomenus, a town in Boeotia.
		Later writers attempted to harmonize these two accounts.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/he/Hesiod.html (367 words)

	Orchomenus — Infoplease.com
		In later times the city was eclipsed by Thebes.
		Near Orchomenus, Sulla won (85 B.C.) a significant victory over Archelaus, general of
		Mithradates VI Excavations on the site have been extensive.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0836793.html (173 words)

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