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Greek mythology

• A king, the father of Elara
  Elara (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology, Elara was the daughter of King Orchomenus and mother of Tityos. She was one of Zeus' lovers and he hid her from his wife, Hera, by placing her deep beneath the earth....
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• A son of Lycaon
  Lycaon (mythology)
  
  Lycaon was the son of Pelasgus and Mece in the form of a wolf was the origin of the myth that Lycaon, the founder of his cult, became a wolf, i.e....
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• The father of Minyas
  Minyas (mythology)
  
  In Greek mythology, Minyas was the founder of Orchomenus or son of king Orchomenus, depending on the story. As the ancestor of the Minyans, a number of Boeotian genealogies lead back to him, according to the classicist H....
   and Kyparissos
  Cyparissus
  
  In Greek mythology, the myth set in Chios tells of Cyparissus , a young boy and son of Telephus. Though the mythic context and the setting is Hellenic, the subject is essentially known from Hellenizing Latin literature and Pompeiian frescoes....
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• A murdered son of Thyestes
  Thyestes
  
  In Greek mythology, Thyestes was the son of Pelops, King of Olympia, Greece, and Hippodamia and father of Pelopia and Aegisthus. Thyestes and his twin brother, Atreus, were exiled by their father for having murdered their half-brother, Chrysippus in their desire for the throne of Olympia, Greece....
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• A childless son of Minyas.
• The son of Athamas
  Athamas
  
  The king of Orchomenus in Greek mythology, Athamas , was married first to the goddess Nephele with whom he had the twins Phrixus and Helle . He later divorced Nephele and married Ino , daughter of Cadmus....
   and Themisto
  Themisto
  
  In Greek mythology, Themisto was the third and last wife of Athamas. According to Apollodorus, she had five children by him: Leucon, Erythrius, Schoeneus, Ptous, and Porphyrion....
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Ancient Greek geography

• Orchomenus, also called the Minyean Orchomenus, a city of Boeotia
  Boeotia
  
  Boeotia, Beotia, or B?otia , formerly Cadmeis, was a region of ancient Greece, north of the eastern part of the Gulf of Corinth. It was bounded on the south by Megaris and the Kithairon mountain range that forms a natural barrier with Attica, on the north by Opuntian Locris and the Euripus Strait at the Gulf of Euboea, and on the...
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• Orchomenus
  Orchomenus (Arcadia)
  
  Orchomenus or Orchomenos or Orkhomenos was an ancient city of Arcadia, Greece, called by Thucydides the Arcadian Orchomenus , to distinguish it from the Orchomenus ....
  , also called the Arcadian Orchomenus, a city of Arcadia
  Arcadia
  
  Arcadia, Arkad?a , or Arcady is a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas....
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• Orchomenus, a city of Thessaly
  Thessaly
  
  Thessaly is one of the 13 Peripheries of Greece of Greece, and is further sub-divided into 4 Prefectures of Greece. The capital of the periphery and traditional Regions of Greece is Larissa....
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• Orchomenus, a city of Euboea
  Euboea
  
  For the Greek mythology figure, see Euboea Euboea is the second largest of the Greece Aegean Islands and the second largest List of islands of Greece overall in area and population, after Crete....
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