• expressly says that Oropus was upon the sea; and the inhabitants had probably returned to their old town long before his time. Although Oropus was so frequently...
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  • genus Oropus: Oropus abbreviatus Casey, 1886 Oropus acriculus Schuster and Grigarick, 1960 Oropus acumenis Schuster and Grigarick, 1960 Oropus basalis...
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    Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad. It seems to have included the city of Oropus, though by the fifth century BCE it was probably a kome (district) of that...
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  • Oropus striatus is a species of ant-loving beetle in the family Staphylinidae. It is found in North America. "Oropus striatus Report". Integrated Taxonomic...
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    bounds of the municipality, was the site an important ancient Greek city, Oropus, and the famous nearby sanctuary of Amphiaraos is still visible today. The...
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    that Iaso blushed upon his passing gas. In the temple of Amphiaraus at Oropus a part of the altar was dedicated to her, in common with Aphrodite, Panaceia...
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  • Oropus cavicauda is a species of ant-loving beetle in the family Staphylinidae. It is found in North America. "Oropus cavicauda Report". Integrated Taxonomic...
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  • Parnes, which leads from the northeastern part of the Athenian plain to Oropus, and from thence both to Tanagra on the one hand, and to Delium and Chalcis...
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    The boundary line came down toward the sea, bounded by the district of Oropus on the right and by the river Asopus on the left. Attica, for the most part...
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    Pausanias, or Strabo. The hero Amphiaraus was honored as Zeus Amphiaraus at Oropus outside of Thebes, and the Spartans even had a shrine to Zeus Agamemnon...
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  • Preptos (redirect from Preptos oropus)
    monotypic moth genus in the family Eupterotidae. Its single species, Preptos oropus, is found in Mexico and Guatemala. Both the genus and species were first...
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    also given by sons of Apollo. In Oropus, north of Athens, the oracle Amphiaraus, was said to be the son of Apollo; Oropus also had a sacred spring. in Labadea...
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  • The Athenians, however, did not conquer the island, but instead sailed to Oropus on the coast of Boeotia. The hoplites landed on shore and marched towards...
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  • Boeotia, and at the distance of about a mile (1.6 km) from the territory of Oropus. This temple, which like the town took its name from the island of Delos...
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  • Albania abandoned Orestias Turkish Thrace abandoned Oreus northern Euboea Oropus Attica, Greece Oropos (Ωρωπός) Onchesmos Epirus, southern Albania Sarandë...
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  • Δελφίνιον) was a town of ancient Boeotia or of ancient Attica, the port-town of Oropus. Strabo, calls the harbour "sacred" and says it was opposite ancient Eretria...
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  • rule, he dedicated a statue of Adeia in the sanctuary of the Amphiaraon at Oropus. The statue is now unfortunately lost. This statue may have been dated to...
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    Amphiaraia (ἀμφιαράϊα), were games celebrated in honour of Amphiaraus in Oropus. Etruscan tradition inherited by the Romans is doubtless the origin of a...
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  • Athens on account of the refusal of the Thebans to surrender the city of Oropus, which on Callistratus' advice the Thebans have been allowed to occupy temporarily...
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    monuments and cults in his honour at various cities, including Rhodes and Oropus In the west, Ptolemy maintained friendly neutrality with the Roman Republic...
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    talents which had been imposed on the Athenians for the destruction of Oropus. During his stay at Rome, he attracted great notice from his eloquent speeches...
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    bank of the Asopus, in a fertile plain, at the distance of 130 stadia from Oropus and 200 from Plataeae. Several ancient writers identified Tanagra with the...
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    it out from the rest of Attica. Nearby was the road between Marathon and Oropus. Rhamnus or Rhamnous (Ancient Greek: Ῥαμνοῦς) or Rhamnuntus or Rhamnountos...
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  • of the Oropia, but subsequently a deme of ancient Attica. It lay between Oropus and Brauron, and was the last demus in the north-eastern district of Attica...
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  • Plataea in 373 BC, and the invasion of the Athenian-allied Boeotian city of Oropus in 366 BC. Demosthenes records this sentiment very clearly in a disclaimer...
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  • interfering in Macedonian dynastic quarrels. Thebes captures the city of Oropus. The experiment by Dion (brother-in-law of Dionysius I) and Plato to educate...
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    to become part of a regime he rejected. Finally, Athens lost the city of Oropus and the sanctuary of the Amphiareion on its northern border, which had been...
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  • interfering in Macedonian dynastic quarrels. Thebes captures the city of Oropus. The experiment by Dion (brother-in-law of Dionysius I) and Plato to educate...
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    "no one knows where this Graia really was; Aristotle thought it was near Oropus, further east on the same coast as Delion." Busolt claimed that the name...
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  • first rapid: he drove out the garrisons of his adversary from Chalcis and Oropus, invaded Attica, where he compelled Athens's tyrant Demetrius Phalereus...
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