- of
Orchomenos in
Mycenaean Greece. A m****ive
hydraulic undertaking drained the
marshes of Lake Kopaïs,
making it a rich
agricultural area.
Orchomenos is...
-
Orchomenus or
Orchomenos or
Orkhomenos (Ancient Gr****: Ὀρχομενός) may
refer to:
Orchomenus (mythology), the name of
several distinct figures Orchomenus...
-
power that
emerged included Pylos, Tiryns, and
Midea in the Peloponnese,
Orchomenos, Thebes, and
Athens in
Central Greece, and
Iolcos in Thessaly. Mycenaean...
- currency. Its
ruins are near the
modern village of
Orchomenos (before 1963: Καλπάκι, Kal****).
Orchomenos was
initially established at the foot of the acropolis...
- one of the Danaïdes. She was a
lover of Zeus and had a son with him,
Orchomenos (or Chryses).
After her
death she was
transformed by the god into a spring...
-
Daughter of
Orchomenos and
lover of Zeus...
-
making his
stand on the
earthworks and
bellowing to his
wavering troops: "
Orchomenos!
Remember the name. I'm
ready to
fight and die here. When
people ask you...
- conflicts, in the
region of Boeotia,
between Mycenaean polities like
Orchomenos, Gla, and Thebes.
Although Thebes and
Eleon had an
important reoccupation...
- 1880–86,
Heinrich Schliemann's
excavations at
Orchomenus (H. Schliemann,
Orchomenos,
Leipzig 1881)
revealed the
tholos tomb he
called the "Tomb of Minyas"...
-
vigorous in Boeotia,
especially those from the
Ptoan sanctuary and the
Orchomenos kouros,
early work
there is
probably native.: 59 Also Corinth, Actium...
