This Amphion is an obscure character, said to be a king of the Minyans of Orchomenus, in Boeotia.

Before they were killed, though, Phrixus and Helle were rescued by a flying, or swimming, ram with golden wool sent by Nephele, their natural mother ; their starting point is variously recorded as Halos in Thessaly and Orchomenus in Boeotia.

Another Chloris is the daughter of a different Amphion ( himself son of Iasus, king of Orchomenus ) by " Phersephone, daughter of Minyas ".

* Learning that the Spartan garrison of Orchomenus ( in Boeotia ) is leaving for an expedition to Locris, Pelopidas sets out with the Sacred Band of Thebes and a small force of cavalry, intending to seize the city while it is unguarded.

However, as the Thebans approach the city, they learn that a sizable force has been dispatched from Sparta to reinforce the garrison at Orchomenus and is approaching the city.

Plutarch adds that down to his time the men of Orchomenus descended from that family were called psoloeis (), that is, mourners, and the women oleiai or aioleiai ( or ), that is, the destroyers.

Accounts vary as to his own parentage: one source states that he was thought to be the son of Orchomenus and Hermippe, his real father being Poseidon ; in another account he is called son of Poseidon and Callirhoe ; yet others variously give his father as Chryses ( son of Poseidon and Chrysogeneia, daughter of Almus ), Ares, Aleus or Eteoclus.

Clytodora is also given as the mother by Minyas of Presbon and Eteoclymene, and Phanosyra of Orchomenus, Diochthondes, and Athamas.

Orchomenus ( or Orchomenos, Orkhomenos Greek: ), the setting for many early Greek myths, is a municipality and a rich archaeological site in Boeotia, Greece, that was inhabited from the Neolithic through the Hellenistic periods.

Athamas the Minyan, a founder of Halos in Thessaly but also king of the city of Orchomenus in Boeotia ( a region of southeastern Greece ), took as his first wife the cloud goddess Nephele, by whom he had two children, the boy Phrixus and the girl Helle.

Chloris, daughter of Orchomenus, married the seer Ampyx ( son of Elatus ), with whom she had a child Mopsus who also became a renowned seer and would later join the Argonauts.

* Orchomenus ( Boeotia ), also called the Minyean Orchomenus, a city of Boeotia

* Orchomenus ( Arcadia ), also called the Arcadian Orchomenus, a city of Arcadia

Heracles was also credited with the burning of the palace at Orchomenus: " Then appearing unawares before the city of the Orchomenians and slipping in at their gates he burned the palace of the Minyans and razed the city to the ground.

: And there was also a kind of Amphictyonic League connected with this temple, a league of seven cities which shared in the sacrifice ; they were Hermione, Epidaurus, Aegina, Athens, Prasïeis, Nauplïeis, and Orchomenus Minyeius ; however, the Argives paid dues for the Nauplians, and the Lacedaemonians for the Prasians.

Some exceptions existed, namely the two hereditary Kings of Sparta ( who served as joint commanders of the army, and were also called arkhagetai ), the Kings of Syracuse, the Kings of Cyrene, the Kings of Macedon and of the Molossians in Epirus and Kings of Arcadian Orchomenus.

Lysander arrived before Pausanias and persuaded the city of Orchomenus to revolt from the Boeotian confederacy.

Lysander, arriving before Pausanias, persuades the city of Orchomenus to revolt from the Boeotian confederacy, and then advances to Haliartus with his troops.

Map of ancient Boeotia showing the location of the city of Orchomenus ( Boeotia ) | Orchomenus

It occurred near the Boeotian city of Orchomenus, then still an ally of Sparta.

Upon reaching the city, they learned that a new mora had been sent from Sparta to reinforce Orchomenus.

Lysander, arriving before Pausanias, successfully persuaded the city of Orchomenus to revolt from the Boeotian confederacy, and advanced to Haliartus with his troops and a force of Orchomenians.

Herodotus expresses some impatience at the ethnic views of his countrymen concerning Ionia: " for it would be foolishness to say that these are more truly Ionian or better born ...." He lists other ethnic populations among the settlers: Abantes from Euboea, Minyans from Orchomenus, Cadmeians, Dryopians, Phocians, Molossians, Arcadian Pelasgians, Dorians of Epidaurus, and others.

Phrixus had fled from Orchomenus riding on a divine ram to avoid being sacrificed and took refuge in Colchis where he was later denied proper burial.

* Clymenus, son of either Presbon or Orchomenus ( in the latter case, brother of Aspledon and Amphidocus ) and a King of Orchomenus in Boeotia, which he inherited from its eponym Orchomenus-either as his son, or ( in the version that makes him a son of Presbon ) because Orchomenus left the kingdom to him, having no children of his own.

The right wing was formed by troops from Thebes, and the Thebans drew themselves up to a depth of 25 men rather than the usual 8, the centre by men from Haliartus, Coronea, and Copiae, and the left wing by troops from Thespiae, Tanagra, and Orchomenus.

The Spartans sent an embassy to Argos and the Argives accepted a truce by the terms of which they gave up Orchomenus, all their hostages and joined up with the Spartans in evicting the Athenians from Epidaurus.

An inscription from ancient Orchomenus dating to 234-224 BC states that members of the Achaean Federation must invoke Zeus and Athena.

Agesilaus's force from Asia, composed largely of emancipated helots and mercenary veterans of the Ten Thousand, was augmented by half a Spartan regiment from Orchomenus, and another half a regiment that had been transported across the Gulf of Corinth.

* Peisistratus of Orchomenus, king of Arcadian Orchomenus during the Peloponnesian War

In 229 BC, the Spartan king, Cleomenes III, captured the strategically important Arcadian cities of Tegea, Mantinea, Caphyae and Orchomenus, which had aligned themselves with the powerful Aetolian League, a state in Central Greece.

8th century BC ), which included, besides Aegina, Athens, the Minyan ( Boeotian ) Orchomenus, Troezen, Hermione, Nauplia and Prasiae, and was probably an organization of city-states that were still Mycenaean, for the purpose of suppressing piracy in the Aegean that arose as a result of the decay of the naval supremacy of the Mycenaean princes.

According to a different tradition, a Cyparissus, possibly not the same figure, was the son of Orchomenus, the brother of Minyas, and the mythical founder of Kyparissos in Phocis, which later was called Anticyra.

Those sought refuge first in Orchomenus, and then in the town of Hippotae which lay between Thisbe and Coronea.

Chaeronea was subject to Orchomenus which was, beginning in 600 BCE, a member of the Boeotian League.

This latest disaster forced the Achaeans to conclude an alliance with Antigonus, under which they were to give him the Acrocorinth, as well as the cities of Orchomenus and Heraea in return for his assistance against Cleomenes.

In this and subsequent years he was elected boeotarch, and about 375 he routed a much larger Spartan force at the battle of Tegyra ( near Orchomenus ).

The Aonians erected them a sanctuary near Orchomenus, where a propitiatory sacrifice was offered to them every year by youths and maidens.

He was King of Orchomenus, and twin brother of Ialmenus.

In Greek mythology, Minyas () was the founder of Orchomenus, Boeotia.

In Greek mythology, Erginus () was king of Minyan Orchomenus in Boeotia.

This prompted a second war between Orchomenus and Thebes, only this time Thebes ( under the leadership of Heracles ) was victorious, and a double tribute was imposed on the Orchomenians.

Ancient historians claimed that Poros was home to an Amphictyony in the Archaic period, a league of the poleis Poros, Athens, Prassiai, Aegina, Epidaurus, Hermione, Troizen, Nauplion and Orchomenus.

An obscure allusion to Orchomenus in Hellenica, however, implies that Xenophon was aware of the Spartan defeat.

Immediately afterwards, the Argives denounced the truce and resumed the war, capturing the key town of Orchomenus ; as a result, anger at Agis was such that he was on the verge of being fined 100, 000 drachmas and having his house destroyed.

In Greek mythology, Elara was a mortal Princess, the daughter of King Orchomenus and mother of giant Tityos.

Lerna has one of the largest prehistoric tumuli of Greece, accumulated during a long Neolithic occupation ; then its crest was levelled and extended — as at Early Helladic Eutresis and Orchomenus — in a new settlement: this stratum, called Lerna III in the site's stratigraphy, corresponds with Early Helladic II at other sites.

The battle would be followed by the Battle of Orchomenus after Archelaus was reinforced by eighty thousand fresh troops under Dorylaeus.