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    site in Boeotia, Greece, that was inhabited from the Neolithic through the Hellenistic periods. It is often referred to as "Minyan Orchomenus", to distinguish...
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    mountain Boeon in Epirus. The earliest inhabitants of Boeotia, associated with the city of Orchomenus, were called Minyans. Pausanias mentions that Minyans...
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  • figures Orchomenus (Arcadia), also called the Arcadian Orchomenus, a city of Arcadia Orchomenus (Boeotia), also called the Minyean Orchomenus, a city...
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  • Minyas (mythology) (category Kings of Minyan Orchomenus)
    Minyas (/ˈmɪniəs, ˈmɪnjəs/; Ancient Greek: Μινύας) was the founder of Orchomenus, Boeotia. As the ancestor of the Minyans, a number of Boeotian genealogies...
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    Theatre of Rhamnous, East Attica Theatre of Chaeronea, Boeotia Theatre of Orchomenos, Orchomenus (Boeotia) Theatre of Delphi, Delphi Theatre of Stratos, Aetolia-Acarnania...
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    The Battle of Orchomenus was fought in 85 BC between Rome and the forces of Mithridates VI of Pontus. The Roman army was led by Lucius Cornelius Sulla...
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  • garrisons out of every city in Boeotia but Orchomenus. In 376 BC, Pelopidas, learning that the Spartan garrison of Orchomenus had gone on an expedition to...
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    Pyrgos (Greek: Πύργος Βοιωτίας) is a small village in Boeotia, possible site of Homeric Nisa (Iliad 2.508). It is named after a ruined medieval tower...
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  • daughters of Minyas, king of Orchomenus, Boeotia. At the time when the worship of Dionysus was introduced into Boeotia, and while the other women and...
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  • destroyed Opus Boeotia, Greece Atalanti Opous Orchomenus Arcadia, Greece Orchomenos near Levidi Kalpaki (Médiéval name) Orchomenus Boeotia, Greece Oricos...
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  • Eurybotadas was the son of Tallus, from Orchomenus (Boeotia). He served as a member of Alexander's allied cavalry until the campaign reached Ecbatana...
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    Middle Helladic pottery type found over much of Greece, especially at Orchomenus (Boeotia). At that location the legendary king Minyas (mythology) was said...
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    In 1880 Schliemann began excavation of the Treasury of Minyas at Orchomenus (Boeotia). From 1882 to 1883 Schliemann made a sixth excavation at Troy, in...
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  • Greece Opus (mythology) Orchamus Orchomenus Orchomenus (Arcadia) Orchomenus (Boeotia) Orchomenus (Euboea) Orchomenus (Thessaly) Oread Oreithyia Painter...
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  • Eustasiades, "Fortresses and Castles of Greece: Eastern central Greece: Attica, Boeotia, Phthiotis, Phocis; Thessaly; Macedonia; Thrace", 1972 Hetherington, Paul...
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  • Erginus /ˈɜːrdʒɪnəs/ (Ancient Greek: Ἐργῖνος) was a king of Minyan Orchomenus in Boeotia. Erginus was the son of Clymenus or Periclymenus, his predecessor...
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    Akraifnia (category Orchomenus (Boeotia))
    Akraifnia (Greek: Ακραιφνία) is a former municipality in Boeotia, Greece. It was established in 1997 from the former communities Akraifnio, Kastro and...
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  • of ancient Boeotia, on the boundary with Phocis. According to Greek mythology, it was founded by Phlegyas. It was located near Orchomenus, where its founder...
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  • extant for Pausanias but cited by Callippus of Corinth (whose history of Orchomenus is no longer extant for us) — Pausanias records that anciently a group...
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  • Battle of Coronea (447 BC) (category Ancient Boeotia)
    Larsen, Orchomenus and the Formation of the Boeotian Confederacy in 447 B.C. Clifford J. Dull, Thucydides 1. 113 and the Leadership of Orchomenus 38°21′N...
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    Furtwängler (1853–1907), he conducted an important excavation at Orchomenus, Boeotia. Der schöne Mensch im Altertum, Eine Geschichte des Körperideals...
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  • Agrionia (category Festivals in ancient Boeotia)
    of Dionysus Agrionius. It was celebrated annually, especially at Orchomenus in Boeotia. According to Plutarch, agrionia was celebrated at night with only...
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  • Minyans (category Ancient tribes in Boeotia)
    group of legendary people who were the inhabitants of the city Orchomenus in Boeotia, and who were also associated with Thessaly. They were named after...
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  • selected infantry body of 300. Learning that the Spartan garrison of Orchomenus (in Boeotia) is leaving for an expedition to Locris, Pelopidas sets out with...
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  • Akraifnio (category Orchomenus (Boeotia))
    Ακραίφνιο), before 1933 known as Karditsa (Καρδίτσα), is a village in Boeotia, Greece. It was the seat of the former municipality Akraifnia, which is...
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  • mythology, Phocus (/ˈfoʊkəs/; Ancient Greek: Φῶκος means "seal") of Glisas, Boeotia, was father of a beautiful daughter Callirhoe. Callirhoe was wooed by thirty...
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  • Clymenus (category Kings of Minyan Orchomenus)
    son of either Presbon or Orchomenus (in the latter case, brother of Aspledon and Amphidocus) and a King of Orchomenus in Boeotia, which he inherited from...
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    father as another Amphion, the ruler of Minyan Orchomenus (see below). Amphion, son of King Iasus of Orchomenus, son of Persephone, daughter of Minyas. He...
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  • Heinrich Schliemann begins excavation around the Tomb of Minyas at Orchomenus (Boeotia). The foundations of a convent, first erected in 670, discovered...
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    peninsula between Chytrium and Myonnesus. It was founded by Minyans from Orchomenus, Ionians and Boeotians, but the date of its foundation is unknown. Teos...
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