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Mythology (4)

Eponymous founders or settlers

Almus

OLMONES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Son of Sisyphus, receives land from Eteocles, succeeds to kingdom of Orchomenus, his daughters.

Holmus, (Holmos), a son of Sisyphus, and father of Minyas. He was believed to have founded the town of Holmones or Halmones, in the neighbourhood of Orchomenus. (Paus. ix. 24.3; Steph. Byz. s. v.)

Heroes

Saon

AKREFNION (Ancient city) THIVES
Acraephnian: discovers oracle of Trophonius.

Historic figures

Acraepheus

Acraepheus (Akraipheus), a son of Apollo, to whom the foundation of the Boeotian town of Acraephia was ascribed. Apollo, who was worshipped in that place, derived from it the surname of Acraephius or Acraephiaeus. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Akraiphia; Paus. ix. 23.3, 40. 2.)

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