Listed 6 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for wider area of: "ORCHOMENOS Municipality VIOTIA" .
ASPLIDON (Ancient city) VIOTIA
City of Boeotia
ORCHOMENOS (Archaeological site) VIOTIA
City of Boeotia, called Minyan, its wealth and prosperity.
YITTOS (Ancient city) ORCHOMENOS
Village of Boeotia.
ASPLIDON (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Aspledon was by some called Spledon, without the first syllable. Then the name,
both of it and of the country, was changed to Eudeielos, perhaps because, from
its "evening" inclination, it offered a special advantage peculiar to
its inhabitants, especially the mildness of its winters; for the two ends of the
day are coldest; and of these the evening is colder than the morning, for as night
approaches the cold is more intense, and as night retires it abates. But the sun
is a means of mitigating the cold. The place, therefore, that is warmed most by
the sun at the coldest time is mildest in winter. Eudeielos is twenty stadia distant
from Orchomenus. And the River Melas is between them.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo (ed. H. L. Jones, 1924), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited Jan 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
ORCHOMENOS (Archaeological site) VIOTIA
The seaport town of Siphae, in the bay of Crisae, in the Thespian territory, was to be betrayed to them by one party; Chaeronea (a dependency of what was formerly called the Minyan, now the Boeotian, Orchomenus ), to be put into their hands by another from that town, whose exiles were very active in the business, hiring men in Peloponnese.
Some time after this, Orchomenus, Chaeronea, and some other places in Boeotia, being in the hands of the Boeotian exiles, the Athenians marched against the above-mentioned hostile places with a thousand Athenian heavy infantry and the allied contingents, under the command of Tolmides, son of Tolmaeus.
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