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Orchomeno's theaterChurch

Location:

  • Greece, Orchomenós
  • geo:37.724072,22.315489
  • Location ± 5-25 m.

Period or year:

  • -12xx~ / unknown

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=11297

Annotations

 Thucydides (v. 61) the Arcadian Orchomenus Ὀρχομενός ὁ Ἀρκαδικός, to distinguish it from the Boeotian. According to Pausanias  Orchomenus became founder of both the town called Methydrium and of Orchomenus1. There is a sanctuary of Artemis, surnamed Hymnia, standing on the borders of Orchomenus, near the territory of Mantineia. Artemis Hymnia has been worshipped by all the Arcadians from the most remote period 2.

See:

  1. Orchomenos (Arkadia) 123 Orchomenos - Ορχομενός - https://topostext.org/place/377223POrc
  2. http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/3/eh351.jsp?obj_id=2634
  3. Pausanias, Description of Greece, VIII
  4. Herodot, Histories IX, 28.

References

  1. Pausanias VIII.3.3
  2. Pausanias VIII.5.11


Nearby

Arcadian Orchomenos, Bouleuterion

The Bouleuterion of Orchomenus.

Arcadian Orchomenos

Ancient theatre of Orhomenos.

Arcadian Orchomenos

Sanctuary of Artemida - altar in Arcadian Orchomenus.


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