Oropus or Oropos (Ancient Greek: ὁ Ὠρωπός, or rarely ἡ Ὠρωπός[1]) was a town on the borders of ancient Attica and Boeotia, and the capital of a district, called after it Oropia (ἡ Ὠρωπία.) This district is a maritime plain, through which the Asopus flows into the sea, and extends for 5 miles (8.0 km) along the shore. It is separated from the inland plain of Tanagra by some hills, which are a continuation of the principal chain of the Diacrian mountains.
^Pausanias (1918). "11.4". Description of Greece. Vol. 7. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
expressly says that Oropus was upon the sea; and the inhabitants had probably returned to their old town long before his time. Although Oropus was so frequently...
bounds of the municipality, was the site an important ancient Greek city, Oropus, and the famous nearby sanctuary of Amphiaraos is still visible today. The...
Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad. It seems to have included the city of Oropus, though by the fifth century BCE it was probably a kome (district) of that...
Oropus striatus is a species of ant-loving beetle in the family Staphylinidae. It is found in North America. "Oropus striatus Report". Integrated Taxonomic...
that Iaso blushed upon his passing gas. In the temple of Amphiaraus at Oropus a part of the altar was dedicated to her, in common with Aphrodite, Panaceia...
Oropus cavicauda is a species of ant-loving beetle in the family Staphylinidae. It is found in North America. "Oropus cavicauda Report". Integrated Taxonomic...
Parnes, which leads from the northeastern part of the Athenian plain to Oropus, and from thence both to Tanagra on the one hand, and to Delium and Chalcis...
Pausanias, or Strabo. The hero Amphiaraus was honored as Zeus Amphiaraus at Oropus outside of Thebes, and the Spartans even had a shrine to Zeus Agamemnon...
The boundary line came down toward the sea, bounded by the district of Oropus on the right and by the river Asopus on the left. Attica, for the most part...
monotypic moth genus in the family Eupterotidae. Its single species, Preptos oropus, is found in Mexico and Guatemala. Both the genus and species were first...
also given by sons of Apollo. In Oropus, north of Athens, the oracle Amphiaraus, was said to be the son of Apollo; Oropus also had a sacred spring. in Labadea...
Boeotia, and at the distance of about a mile (1.6 km) from the territory of Oropus. This temple, which like the town took its name from the island of Delos...
Amphiaraia (ἀμφιαράϊα), were games celebrated in honour of Amphiaraus in Oropus. Etruscan tradition inherited by the Romans is doubtless the origin of a...
monuments and cults in his honour at various cities, including Rhodes and Oropus In the west, Ptolemy maintained friendly neutrality with the Roman Republic...
rule, he dedicated a statue of Adeia in the sanctuary of the Amphiaraon at Oropus. The statue is now unfortunately lost. This statue may have been dated to...
Athens on account of the refusal of the Thebans to surrender the city of Oropus, which on Callistratus' advice the Thebans have been allowed to occupy temporarily...
talents which had been imposed on the Athenians for the destruction of Oropus. During his stay at Rome, he attracted great notice from his eloquent speeches...
bank of the Asopus, in a fertile plain, at the distance of 130 stadia from Oropus and 200 from Plataeae. Several ancient writers identified Tanagra with the...
it out from the rest of Attica. Nearby was the road between Marathon and Oropus. Rhamnus or Rhamnous (Ancient Greek: Ῥαμνοῦς) or Rhamnuntus or Rhamnountos...
interfering in Macedonian dynastic quarrels. Thebes captures the city of Oropus. The experiment by Dion (brother-in-law of Dionysius I) and Plato to educate...
of the Oropia, but subsequently a deme of ancient Attica. It lay between Oropus and Brauron, and was the last demus in the north-eastern district of Attica...
to become part of a regime he rejected. Finally, Athens lost the city of Oropus and the sanctuary of the Amphiareion on its northern border, which had been...
Plataea in 373 BC, and the invasion of the Athenian-allied Boeotian city of Oropus in 366 BC. Demosthenes records this sentiment very clearly in a disclaimer...
"no one knows where this Graia really was; Aristotle thought it was near Oropus, further east on the same coast as Delion." Busolt claimed that the name...
interfering in Macedonian dynastic quarrels. Thebes captures the city of Oropus. The experiment by Dion (brother-in-law of Dionysius I) and Plato to educate...
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