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OPUS ('O7rois)

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 141 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NUM-ORC
OPUS ('O7rois) , in ancient
Greece
 , the
chief
  city of the Opuntian Locrians; the walls of the town may still be seen on a hill about 6 m. S.E. of the
modern
  Atalante, and about i m. from the channel which separates the mainland from Euboea. It is mentioned in the Homeric catalogue among the towns of the Locrians, who were led by Ajax Oileus; and there were games called Aiantea and an altar at
Opus
  in honour of Ajax.
Opus
  was also the birthplace of Patroclus.
Pindar
 's Ninth Olympian Ode is mainly devoted to the
glory
  and traditions of Opus. Its founder was Opus the son of Zeus and Protogeneia, the daughter of an Elian Opus, or, according to another version, of Deucalion and Pyrrha, and the wife of Locros. The Locrians deserted the Greek side in the Persian Wars; they were among the
allies
  of
Sparta
  in the Peloponnesian War. In the struggle between Philip V. of Macedon and the Romans the town went over to the latter in 197 B.C., but the
Acropolis
  held out for Philip until his defeat at Cynoscephalae (Livy xxxii. 32). The town suffered from earthquakes, such as that which destroyed the neighbouring Atalante in 1894.


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