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Orchomenus

Ὀρχόμενος

(Ὀρχόμενος).

1. A sun of Lycaon, and the reputed founder of the Arcadian towns of Orchomenus and Methydrium. (Apollod. 3.8.1; Paus. 8.3.1.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.