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Also known as Orneai

Orneae or Orneai () was a town in ancient Argolis, mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad, which is said to have derived its name from Orneus, the son of Erechtheus, or could take it from Ornea, a naiad and daughter of the river god Asopus. Orneae retained its ancient Cynurian inhabitants, when Argos was conquered by the Dorians. According to Pausanias, it continued independent of Argos for a long time; but it was finally conquered by the Argives, who removed the Orneatae to their own city. Thucydides mentions the Orneatae and Cleonaei as allies (σύμμαχοι) of the Argives in

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Orneus
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Greece
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Orneas (en griego antiguo, Όρνεαί) ​ es el nombre de una antigua ciudad griega de Argólide y probablemente también de otra, más antigua, ubicada en Corintia. El gentilicio es orneata (Όρνεάτης),​ en jónico Όρνεῄτης.​ Una tradición menciona que su fundador epónimo fue Orneo, hijo de Erecteo.​ Homero la menciona en el Catálogo de las naves entre los territorios bajo el mando de Agamenón.​

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