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OGCHISTOS (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Onchestus participated in the Trojan War and is listed in the Homeric Catalogue of Ships. Homer mentions that there was a shrine of Poseidon in a "bright grove" (Il.2.506) and Strabo says that the poets called all the shrines "alsos" (= groves) (Strab. 9,2,23).
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