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	Oropus - LoveToKnow 1911
		OROPUS, a Greek seaport, on the Euripus, in the district IlEtpairoi, opposite Eretria.
		It was a border city between Boeotia and Attica, and its possession was a continual cause of dispute between the two countries; but at last it came into the final possession of Athens, and is always alluded to under the Roman empire as an Attic town.
		The famous oracle of Amphiaraus was situated in the territory of Oropus, 12 stadia from the city.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Oropus (177 words)

	Gutenkarte » The History of the Peloponnesian War » Eretria
		Their accomplices in this were some of the Eretrians and of the Oropians themselves, who were plotting the revolt of Euboea, as the place was exactly opposite Eretria, and while in Athenian hands was necessarily a source of great annoyance to Eretria and the rest of Euboea.
		Oropus being in their hands, the Eretrians now came to Rhodes to invite the Peloponnesians into Euboea.
		For Agesandridas, after his crews had dined, put out from Oropus, which is about seven miles from Eretria by sea; and the Athenians, seeing him sailing up, immediately began to man their vessels.
	www.gutenkarte.org /place/7142/13216 (572 words)

	attica - NumisWiki, The Collaborative Numismatics Project
		Oropus stood on the northern coast of Attica, exactly opposite Eretria in Euboea.
		The port of Oropus was the sacred harbour of Delphinium
		It may have obtained autonomy when Flamininus proclaimed the freedom of Greece, B.C. 196; or the coins may be later, and perhaps struck for the requirements of the quinquennial festivals of the Amphiaraea, which after Sulla’s time rose in importance and were celebrated with greater splendour.
	www.forumancientcoins.com /numiswiki/view.asp?key=attica (8629 words)

	Menedemus
		In addition to his philosophical work, he took a leading part iii the political affairs of his city from the time of the Diadochi[?] until his death, and obtained a remission of the tribute to Demetrius.
		His friendship with Antigonus Gonatas[?] seems to have roused suspicion as to his loyalty, and he sought safety first in the temple of Amphiaraus at Oropus[?], and later with Antigonus, at whose court he is said to have died of grief.
		Othef accounts say that he starved himself to death on failing to induce Antigonus to free his native city.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/me/Menedemus.html (404 words)

	CALLISTRATUS. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		B.C., but he saved himself with his brilliant defense—an oration that is supposed to have inspired Demosthenes to study rhetoric.
		After new failure he fled Athens and was condemned in absentia for having urged Athens to allow Thebes to occupy Oropus in Boetia.
		When he returned he was put to death.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/ca/Callistr.html (89 words)

	Agrarian Laws
		Annexation was carried on in the provinces on a relatively smaller scale: but Rome retained as domain-land much of the territory of communities which had been destroyed, such as Carthage and Corinth, and the estates of former kings, such as the lands of the Attalids in the Chersonese.
		Other domains in Sicily and Greece, such as the territory of Leontini in the former, or Oropus in the latter case, are also found.
		This peculiar property of the Roman state in the provinces must be carefully distinguished from the general overlordship which Rome was supposed to hold over all provincial soil, expressed in the statement that provincials had only possession or usufruct of their land (Gaius ii.
	www.aardbargain.com /agrarian-laws.html (3430 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 371 BC he was one of the crafters of the Peace of Callias, which recognized the hegemony of Athens on the sea and that of Sparta on land.
		On account of the refusal of the Thebans to surrender Oropus, which on his advice they had been allowed to occupy temporarily, Callistratus, despite his magnificent defence (which so impressed Demosthenes that he resolved to study oratory), was condemned to death in 361 BC.
		He fled to Methone in Macedonia, where he was accommodated by King Perdiccas III who drew on his financial expertise.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Callistratus_of_Aphidnae (247 words)

	Notebook
		When in the course of the battle against Thebes Amphiaraos retreated and was in danger of succumbing to the attacks of Periclymenos, Zeus opened the earth with a thunderbolt and he was swallowed up in the earth with his chariot and two horses.
		Amphiaraos was worshipped as a seer and had two sanctuaries, one in Thebes and another at Oropus.
		With the passage of time, that of Oropus became the most celebrated and besides being an oracle it became a center for medical cures.
	www.noteaccess.com /APPROACHES/AGW/Amphiaraos.htm (182 words)

	Index of names: Or
		313/26 emaeus captures Chalcis and Oropus, and forces the Athenians to sue
		156/2_ ate appoints the Sicyonians to arbitrate between Oropus and Athens
		149/14 SIG_675, a decree of Oropus in honour of Hieron of Aegeira.
	www.attalus.org /names/or.html (620 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Oropus
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		Titular see, suffragan of Anazarbus in Cilicia Secunda.
		Oropus is no other than Olba, suffragan of Seleucia, annexed with the Province of Isauria to the Patriarchate of Constantinople in the eighth century, and mentioned in the "Notitiæ" of Leo the Wise and of Constantine Porphyrogenitus.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11321b.htm (61 words)

	Antiqua Medicina :: Healer Cults and Sanctuaries
		This famous dedication was made by Archinus at the healing shrine of Amphiaraus at Oropus, on the borders of Boeotia and Attica.
		The cult at Oropus was one of incubation, and on the right, we see the patient asleep on a couch.
		In the left foreground, Amphiaraus, like a human doctor, is treating the patient’s right shoulder: this scene represents the supposed content of Archinus’s dream.
	www.healthsystem.virginia.edu /internet/library/historical/artifacts/antiqua/healercults.cfm (943 words)

	All Empires: History Forum: Participation of Macedonians in Pan-Hellenic games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		A mathematician is a person who thinks that if there are supposed to be three people in a room, but five come out, then two more must enter the room in order for it to be empty.
		Another interesting discovery is the two white marble steles found in the Amphiaraeum at Oropus.
		Amyntas (A 4), son of Perdiccas III of Macedon, succeeded his father on the throne in 359; his uncle and guardian Philip became regent and soon arrogated the kingship to himself, but Amyntas is described in an inscription of Lebadea (I.G. vii.
	www.allempires.com /forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12391 (1758 words)

	Monastery of the Holy Spirit: VI. The Monastic Day
		An important means toward the realization of this unity in diversity is the practice of the Divine Office, traditionallythe form of monastic prayer.
		The visitor to the monastery who arrives fifteen minutes before the community Mass at 7:15 AM on weekdays will be able to participate in one of the major liturgical activities of the abbey, the Divine Office orOpus Dei.
		When St. Benedict wrote in his Rule, "Let nothing be preferred to the Work of God," he was referring to the essential role of this mode of prayer for the monastic existence.
	www.trappist.net /newweb/hist6.html (673 words)

	Diogenes Laertius, Life of Menedemus, from Lives of the Philosophers, translated by C.D. Yonge
		And during the summer, mats of rushes were laid upon the couches, and in winter soft cushions; and each guest was expected to bring a pillow for himself.
		It is well known too that he was sent on a most important embassy to Demetrius, on the subject of Oropus, as Euphantus relates in his History.
		Leaving Oropus, and being in a state of great despondency, he entered his country secretly; and taking with him his wife and daughters, he went to the court of Antigonus, and there died of a broken heart.
	classicpersuasion.org /pw/diogenes/dlmenedemus.htm (1895 words)

	oropus - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		We found 3 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word oropus:
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		OROPUS : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=oropus (78 words)

	Oropus * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		Oropus * People, Places, and Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		The site of the oracular shrine of Amphiaraus where prophecy was given to the supplicants by means of dreams.
		Cut and paste the following text for use in a paper or electronic document report.
	www.messagenet.com /myths/ppt/Oropus_1.html (233 words)

	Critolaus
		The world, as the manifestation of eternal order, must itself be immortal.
		From Cicero it appears that he was sent with Carneades and Diogenes to Rome in 156-155 BC to protest against the fine of 500 talents imposed on Athens in punishment for the sack of Oropus.
		The three ambassadors lectured on philosophy in Rome with so much success that Cato the Elder was alarmed and had them dismissed from the city.
	www.nndb.com /people/195/000095907 (342 words)

	Hellenica - Chapter IV
		The Athenians in consequence despatched an expedition in full force to the point of danger, and recalled Chares from Thyamia; whereupon the Sicyonians and the Arcadians seized the opportunity to recapture the harbour of Sicyon.
		Meanwhile the Athenians, forced to act single- handed, with none of their allies to assist them, retired from Oropus, leaving that town in the hands of the Thebans as a deposit till the case at issue could be formally adjudicated.
		Now Lycomedes[3] had discovered that the Athenians were harbouring a grievance against her allies, as follows:--They felt it hard that, while Athens was put to vast trouble on their account, yet in her need not a man among them stepped forward to render help.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/historical/Hellenica/chap38.html (4176 words)

	156 B.C. - events and references
		The Roman senate appoints the Sicyonians to arbitrate between Oropus and Athens.
		For the date of Pharnaces' death, see OCD_p and Walbank_p318.
		The Sicyonians fine the Athenians 500 talents for the sack of Oropus.
	www.attalus.org /bc2/year156.html (147 words)

	Thucydides-Passages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Athenians in their haste were compelled to employ crews not yet trained to work together, for the city was in a state of revolution, and the matter was vital and urgent; Euboea was all in all to them now that they were shut out from Attica.
		No sooner had they arrived than they were constrained to fight; for Agesandridas, after his men had taken their midday meal, brought out his own ships from Oropus, which is distant by sea about seven miles from the city of Eretria, and bore down upon them.
		A signal was also raised at Eretria telling the fleet at Oropus when to attack.
	classicpersuasion.org /pw/thucydides/thucydides-passages.php?pleaseget=8.95-99 (961 words)

	Lapis Sabinicus, Lapis Selentinus, Lapis Liparaeus and Other Mixtures of Stone, Metal and Earth
		Similar earth is reported to occur near Cassandria.
		Oropus writes that any earth will be changed to stone if placed in the sea.
		These earths possess within themselves a quality which changes them into stones although waters may have this same quality as I have mentioned elsewhere.
	www.farlang.com /gemstones/agricola_textbook_of_mineralogy/page_231 (534 words)

	Attica Athenian Owl Silver Tetradrachm AOE
		The process of the unification of Attica by Athens is not entirely clear, but it concluded at some point in the first half of the 7th century BC when Eleusis and the surrounding plains were joined to the Athenian state, and its inhabitants became citizens.
		Even then, the boundaries were not fixed, as Athens struggled with Megara for control of Salamis, and with Boeotia over border towns like Oropus for centuries.
		Attica later became part of (successively) the Roman and Byzantine Empires, the crusader Duchy of Athens, and the Ottoman Empire,
	www.realtreasures.com /attica.htm (359 words)

	Detail Page
		However, the rise of Thebes led him to advocate peace with Sparta.
		Thebes seized Oropus, and Callistratus was prosecuted, successfully defending himself in a speech that inspired Demosthenes.
		A further prosecution forced Callistratus into exile, and he was executed on his return in 361
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=HLAG0135 (98 words)

	livy 45.27-33
		From Chalcis he crossed to Aulis, three miles away, a harbor world-famed as the anchorage in days of old for the thousand ships of Agamemnon's fleet, with its temple of Diana where the great king of kings sought a passage to Troy for his ships by bringing his daughter to the altar as a victim.
		From there Paulus went on to Oropus in Attica where a prophet of ancient times (Amphiaraus) is worshipped as a god, and where there is an old sanctuary, a spot made delightful by the springs and streams surround-ing it.
		After offering sacrifice at Athens to Minerva, the presiding deity of the Acropolis, Paulus left for Corinth, which he reached on the second day.
	www.u.arizona.edu /~afutrell/republic/livy45week9.html (2331 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Carey, Aeschines
		Thebes as an errant former ally of Macedonia was treated harshly: it lost control of the Boeotian cities and received a Macedonian garrison.
		Athens received more lenient treatment: though it was compelled to dissolve its maritime confederacy, it retained its formal autonomy and some overseas possessions and was given Oropus on the border between Attica and Boeotia.
		A league of Greek states was created, with its council meeting in Corinth; only Sparta remained aloof.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/excaraes.html (4175 words)

	History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
		This armament weighed anchor and started on its cruise, and the Peloponnesians, after remaining in Attica as long as their provisions lasted, retired through Boeotia by a different road to that by which they had entered.
		As they passed Oropus they ravaged the territory of Graea, which is held by the Oropians from Athens, and reaching Peloponnese broke up to their respective cities.
		After they had retired the Athenians set guards by land and sea at the points at which they intended to have regular stations during the war.
	www.4literature.net /Thucydides/History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War/29.html (1389 words)

	311 Post-Classical Drama and Mime, Classical Drama and Theatre
		To serve this growing public, many new theatres were built—or old ones renovated and expanded—all across the Mediterranean world.
		At Oropus (northern Greece), Epidaurus (southern Greece), Alexandria (Egypt), Ephesus and Priene (Asia Minor, i.e.
		It is also at this time that circular orchestras came to dominate and skenes added a second story.
	www.usu.edu /markdamen/ClasDram/chapters/111mime.htm (2877 words)

	Das Hotel- und Urlaubsportal für Oropus und Griechenland / Greece - Hotels, Pensionen, Jugendherbergen, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Das Hotel- und Urlaubsportal für Oropus und Griechenland
		Willkommen auf dem Hotel- und Urlaubs-Portal für Oropus und Griechenland
		Griechenland und Oropus entwickeln sich als eine der beliebtesten Feriengegend - egal ob Luxushotel oder einfaches Familienhotel.
	www.oropus.hotel-urlaub-griechenland.info (179 words)

	Letters to Dead Authors eBook
		Wherefore, if you have anything to show or set forth whereby you may be relieved from the burden of these accusations, now is the time.
		Be no more silent; but, whether through the Oracle of the Dead, or the Oracle of Branchidae, or that in Delphi, or Dodona, or of Amphiaraus at Oropus, speak to your friends and lovers (whereof I am one from of old) and let men know the very truth.
		Now, concerning the priests in the City of the Ford of the Ox, it is to be said that of all men whom we know they receive strangers most gladly, feasting them all day.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/3319/14.html (389 words)

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