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 Oropos, or Oropus ((Ὠρωπός) is a Greek seaport, on the Euripus, in Attica, opposite Eretria. Oropos is located in the northern part of the small highway of GR-79 (Malakasa? - Oropos).
Oropos today In ancient times, it was a border city between Boeotia and Attica, and its possession was a continual cause of dispute between the two countries; but at last it came into the final possession of Athens, and is always alluded to under the Roman empire as an Attic town. The actual harbour, which was called Delphinium, was at the mouth of the Asopus, about a mile north of the city.
Votive relief of Archinos (370 BC) from Tyrea, Argolis (Oropos / Amphiaraus), 0.49 m x 0.55 m. The healing god Asklepios appears to the dreamer to cure him. Nationalmuseum Athens, No. 3369
The famous oracle of Amphiaraus was situated in the territory of Oropus, 12 stadia from the city. The site has been excavated by the Greek Archaeological Society; it contained a temple, a sacred spring, into which coins were thrown by worshippers, altars and porticoes, and a small theatre, of which the proscenium is well preserved. Worshippers used to consult the oracle of Amphiaraus by sleeping on the skin of a slaughtered ram within the sacred building.
Plangon Stele: Text; Plangon Tolmidoy Plataiki. Tolmides Plataeus. "Plangon, wife of Tolmides, from Plataea. Tolmides, the Platean". Probably the stele of a wife who died soon a after becoming a mother. Discovered in Oropos. This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org"
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