Orkhomenos
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Minyan Orkhomenos
in the texts
Iliad
A city cited by Achilles as a byword for wealth.
he may promise me the wealth of Orkhomenos or of Egyptian Thebes, which is the richest city in the whole world, for it has a hundred gates through each of which two hundred men may drive at once with their chariots and horses;
Odyssey
City ruled by Amphion son of Iasos, later mentioned as a possible location of Orestes.
She was youngest daughter to Amphion son of Iasos and king of Minyan Orkhomenos, and was Queen in Pylos.
Is he in Orkhomenos, or at Pylos, or is he at Sparta with Menelaos - for I presume that he is still living.