Note: Located next to the village of Skripou (now also called "Orchomenos") on Cephisus river, at the foot of a rocky ridge known in antiquity as Akontion. Inhabited from the Neolithic through the Hellenistic periods. Formerly lay on the shore of Lake Kopais. First recorded in Homer's Iliad. Home to the Minyae; later was subject of Thebes, but sided with Sparta in 379 BCE; was destroyed and rebuilt several times in Antiquity. Here Heinrich Schliemann found articles of a pottery type that he called "Minyan ware."
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