CROWELL'S HANDBOOK OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY1970 |
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Page 279
... Orchomenus . Heracles cut off their ears and noses , hung them around their necks , and sent them thus back to Orchomenus as " tribute . " Enraged , Erginus advanced on Thebes with his Minyan army . Creon , whose Thebans had been ...
... Orchomenus . Heracles cut off their ears and noses , hung them around their necks , and sent them thus back to Orchomenus as " tribute . " Enraged , Erginus advanced on Thebes with his Minyan army . Creon , whose Thebans had been ...
Page 383
... Orchomenus . To judge from the confused accounts of the ancestry of the Minyans , this race seems to have been , like the Pelasgians , part of a wide- spread but vague tradition . They were generally thought to be descended from one or ...
... Orchomenus . To judge from the confused accounts of the ancestry of the Minyans , this race seems to have been , like the Pelasgians , part of a wide- spread but vague tradition . They were generally thought to be descended from one or ...
Page 429
... Orchomenus ( 1 ) . The eponym of Boeotian Orchomenus . Orchomenus has been called both the father and the son of Minyas , eponym of the Minyans , who occupied the city of Orchomenus . He is also said to have died childless . [ Pausanias ...
... Orchomenus ( 1 ) . The eponym of Boeotian Orchomenus . Orchomenus has been called both the father and the son of Minyas , eponym of the Minyans , who occupied the city of Orchomenus . He is also said to have died childless . [ Pausanias ...
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