Listed 12 sub titles with search on: Monuments reported by ancient authors for wider area of: "ORCHOMENOS Municipality VIOTIA" .
ORCHOMENOS (Archaeological site) VIOTIA
(Pint. de Orac. Defect. 44.)
TEGYRA (Ancient city) ORCHOMENOS
Oracle of Tegyra. This lay not far from Abae, but just within the Boeotian frontier. Plutarch tells us that it flourished chiefly in the Persian wars, when it had a high priest Echecrates (Pelopid. 16), and promised the Greeks the victory over the Persians (Defect. Orac. 5). Tegyra was on one occasion declared by the Pythia herself to have been the birthplace of Apollo (Plutarch, Pelopid. 16; Defect. Orac. 5; Steph. Byz. s. v. Tegura).
This text is from: A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890) (eds. William Smith, LLD, William Wayte, G. E. Marindin). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
YITTOS (Ancient city) ORCHOMENOS
One was at Hyettus in Boeotia (Pausan. ix. 36, § 6); another at Bura, in Achaia. Those who consulted it prayed and put their questions, and then cast four dice painted with figures, and the answer was given according to the position of these figures (Pausan. vii. 25, § 6). Another oracle of Heracles was at Gades (Dio Cass. lxxvii. 20). Like Asclepius, Heracles was almost to be reckoned as a god; had he been merely the Greek son of Zeus and Alcmena, this would not have been so: but he was identified with foreign deities, such as Melkart.
ORCHOMENOS (Archaeological site) VIOTIA
At Orchomenus is a sanctuary of Dionysus.
The oldest sanctuary is one of the Graces. They worship the stones most, and say that they fell for Eteocles out of heaven. The artistic images were dedicated in my time, and they too are of stone.
...They were changed into comets by Pluto and Persephone, and had a sanctuary near Orchomenus (Ovid, Met.xiii. 685). [p. 1031]
About Actaeon the Orchomenians had the following story. A ghost, they say, carrying a rock1 was ravaging the land. When they inquired at Delphi, the god bade them discover the remains of Actaeon and bury them in the earth. He also bade them make a bronze likeness of the ghost and fasten it to a rock with iron. I have myself seen this image thus fastened. They also sacrifice every year to Actaeon as to a hero
Dionysos at Orchomenos, later RE-dedicated on Mt. Helikon by Sulla.
Seven stades from Orchomenus is a temple of Heracles with a small image.
YITTOS (Ancient city) ORCHOMENOS
In Hyettus is a temple of Heracles, from whom the sick may get cures. There is an image not carefully carved, but of unwrought stone after the ancient fashion.
ORCHOMENOS (Archaeological site) VIOTIA
(Paus. 9.38,3).
(Paus. 9,38,3-4).
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