Onchestus
place · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Poseidon's bright grove · grassy Onchestus · lord of the shrine · lovely grove
in the texts
Hymn 3 to Delian and Pythian Apollo
Onchestus is Poseidon's grove, marked by a chariot ritual and prayers to the shrine's lord.
And further still you went, O far-shooting Apollo, and came to Onchestus, Poseidon's bright grove:
and if they break the chariot in the woody grove, men look after the horses, but tilt the chariot and leave it there;
Hymn 4 to Hermes
Onchestus is the sacred grove and vineyard area where a mortal witness observes Hermes' cattle drive and speaks with Apollo.
But an old man tilling his flowering vineyard saw him as he was hurrying down the plain through grassy Onchestus.
-->“Old man, weeder of grassy Onchestus, I am come here from Pieria seeking cattle, cows all of them, all with curving horns, from my herd.
Now Eos the early born, bringing light to men, was rising from deep-flowing Ocean, when Apollo, as he went, came to Onchestus, the lovely grove and sacred place of the loud-roaring Holder of the Earth.
Isthmean
A sacred Boeotian site of Poseidon, invoked alongside the Isthmus in connection with Asopodorus's family.
The shaker of the earth who dwells at Onchestus and at the sea-bridge before the walls of Corinth, by offering to that family this marvellous song, wakes from her bed their ancient fame for glorious deeds.
But I, arraying with song Poseidon and the sacred Isthmus and the shores of Onchestus, shall tell, along with the honors of this man, the very famous fortune of his father Asopodorus and of his ancestral land of Orchomenus, which received him from the boundless sea when he was hard-pressed by shipwreck, in chilly misfortune.