Listed 9 sub titles with search on: Monuments reported by ancient authors for destination: "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]
(Paus. 9.38,3).
(Paus. 9,38,3-4).
Seven stades from Orchomenus is a temple of Heracles with a small image.
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.
(Pint. de Orac. Defect. 44.)
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