InGreek mythology, the nameOrchomenus (/ɔːrˈkɒmɪnəs/;Ancient Greek:Ὀρχομενός,romanized: Orkhomenós, fromὄρχος andμένος) may refer to:

• Orchomenus, anArcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious KingLycaon^[1] either by thenaiadCyllene,^[2]Nonacris^[3] or by an unknown woman. He was the founder andeponym ofOrchomenus (Arcadia), as well as founder ofMethydrium.^[4] One account called him father ofArcas.^[5] Orchomenus and his siblings were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them,Zeus visited them in the form of a peasant. These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal, whereupon the enraged king of the gods threw the meal over the table. Orchomenus was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god.^[6]
• Orchomenus, a king, the father ofElara.^[7]
• Orchomenus, son ofZeus and theDanaidIsonoe (Isione^[8]). He was the husband ofHermippe and legal father ofMinyas^[9] whose biological father wasPoseidon.^[10] In some accounts, Orchomenus was regarded as the son of Zeus and Hermippe instead.^[11]
• Orchomenus, a son ofMinyas andPhanosyra, thus grandson of the above^[10] (note though that there were multiple versions of Minyas' parentage). He succeeded to Minyas' power and had his domain, theBoeotianOrchomenus, named after himself. He receivedHyettus who had fledArgos over the murder ofMolurus, and assigned to him a tract of land.^[12] According to one source, Orchomenus died without issue, and his kingdom was handed over toPresbon, a son ofPhrixus;^[13] in an alternate version though, he was father ofAspledon,Amphidocus andClymenus,^[14] of whom the latter was his successor. He may be the Orchomenus who is given as father ofChloris, the consort ofAmpycus.^[15]
• Orchomenus, son ofEteocles and brother of Minyas, in a rare genealogy; essentially the same as the above.^[16]
• Orchomenus, a son ofAthamas andThemisto and brother ofSphincius according toHyginus.^[17]
• Orchomenus, one of the sons ofThyestes by anaiad whose flesh was served to their own father byAtreus.^[18] His two brothers wereAglaus andCalaeus.^[19]

• Apollodorus,The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
• Dionysus of Halicarnassus,Roman Antiquities. English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937-1950.Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Dionysius of Halicarnassus,Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt,Vol I-IV. . Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus,Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Pausanias,Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.ISBN 0-674-99328-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias,Graeciae Descriptio.3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pseudo-Clement,Recognitions fromAnte-Nicene Library Volume 8, translated by Smith, Rev. Thomas. T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh. 1867.Online version at theio.com
• Stephanus of Byzantium,Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Tzetzes, John,Book of Histories, Book I translated by Ana Untila from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826.Online version at theio.com
• Tzetzes, John,Lycophronis Alexandra. Vol. II: Scholia Continens, edited by Eduard Scheer, Berlin, Weidmann, 1881.Internet Archive.

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