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  • Greece, Orchomenós
  • geo:37.724072,22.315489

Period or year

  • -12xx~ / unknown

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  • city
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Orchomenos [Arcadia]

data access 11297

 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

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Creators: Entry created by Voorburg, R.J.J. (2012-12-19) , last updated by Elżbieta (2018-10-09), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/11297
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Suggested citation: Voorburg, R.J.J. and Elżbieta, Orchomenos [Arcadia]. https://vici.org/vici/11297, accessed 2026-11-03.