Listed 25 sub titles with search on: Monuments reported by ancient authors for wider area of: "GORTYNIA Province ARCADIA" .
LYKEON (Mountain) ARCADIA
On the highest point of the mountain is a mound of earth, forming an altar of Zeus Lycaeus, and from it most of the Peloponnesus can be seen. Before the altar on the east stand two pillars, on which there were of old gilded eagles. On this altar they sacrifice in secret to Lycaean Zeus. I was reluctant to pry into the details of the sacrifice; let them be as they are and were from the beginning.
(Paus. 8,38,7). Many ancient writers mention that human sacrifices were offered to the Lycaean Zeus, even in Pausanias' time, but that the offer would not bring any result if details of the ritual were published.
DIMITRA (Village) KONTOVAZENA
The sanctuary of Eleusinian Demeter is on the borders of Thelpusa. In it are images, each no less than seven feet high, of Demeter, her daughter, and Dionysus, all alike of stone (Paus. 8,25,3). The village Divritsa changed its name to Dimitra when the ancient sanctuary of Demeter Eleusinian was brought to light (Ekd. Athinon, Pausaniou Periegissis, vol. 4, p. 278, note of the left column).
GORTYS (Ancient city) ARCADIA
As you go from the source of the river, you will reach first a place called Maratha, and after it Gortys, which to-day is a village, but of old was a city. Here there is a temple of Asclepius, made of Pentelic marble, with the god, as a beardless youth, and an image of Health. Scopas was the artist. The natives also say that Alexander the son of Philip dedicated to Asclepius his breastplate and spear. The breastplate and the head of the spear are still there to-day.
KAOS (Ancient city) KONTOVAZENA
In the Thelpusian territory is a river called Arsen (Male). Cross this and go on for about twenty-five stades, when you will arrive at the ruins of the village Caus, with a sanctuary of Causian Asclepius, built on the road.
LYKEON (Mountain) ARCADIA
There is on Mountain Lycaeus a sanctuary of Pan, and a grove of trees around it, with a race-course in front of which is a running-track. Of old they used to hold here the Lycaean games. Here there are also bases of statues, with now no statues on them. On one of the bases an elegiac inscription declares that the statue was a portrait of Astyanax, and that Astyanax was of the race of Arcas.
On the east side of the mountain there is a sanctuary of Apollo surnamed Parrhasian. They also give him the name Pythian. They hold every year a festival in honor of the god and sacrifice in the market-place a boar to Apollo Helper, and after the sacrifice here they at once carry the victim to the sanctuary of Parrhasian Apollo in procession to the music of the flute; cutting out the thigh-bones they burn them, and also consume the meat of the victim on the spot.
OGION (Ancient city) TROPEA
After Thelpusa the Ladon descends to the sanctuary of Demeter in Onceium. The images in the temple are of wood, but their faces, hands and feet are of Parian marble. The image of Fury holds what is called the chest, and in her right hand a torch; her height I conjecture to be nine feet. Lusia seemed to be six feet high.
The Ladon, leaving on the left the sanctuary of the Fury, passes on the left the
temple of Oncaeatian Apollo, and on the right a sanctuary of Boy Asclepius, where
is the tomb of Trygon, who is said to have been the nurse of Asclepius. For the
story is that Asclepius, when little, was exposed in Thelpusa, but was found by
Autolaus, the illegitimate son of Arcas, who reared the baby, and for this reason
Boy Asclepius.
TEFTHIS (Ancient city) DIMITSANA
There are also at Teuthis sanctuaries of Aphrodite and Artemis.
There are also at Teuthis sanctuaries of Aphrodite and Artemis.
THELPOUSSA (Ancient city) TROPEA
Thelpusa has a temple of Asclepius and a sanctuary of the twelve gods; the greater part of this, I found, lay level with the ground.
TRIKOLONI (Ancient city) TRIKOLONES
Once Tricoloni also was a city, and even to-day there still remains on a hill a sanctuary of Poseidon with a square image, and around the sanctuary stands a grove of trees.
VASSILIS (Ancient city) GORTYS
To-day Basilis is in ruins, among which remains a sanctuary of Eleusinian Demeter (Paus. 8,29,5). This sanctuary was said to have been built by Cypselus, who had also established a beauty contest for women at the same sanctuary (Ekd. Athinon, Pausaniou Periegissis, vol.4, p. 307, note 7)].
IREA (Ancient city) ARCADIA
Walks have been made along the river, separated by myrtles and other cultivated trees; the baths are there, as are also two temples to Dionysus. One is to the god named Citizen.
Walks have been made along the river, separated by myrtles and other cultivated trees; the baths are there, as are also two temples to Dionysus. One is to the god named Citizen, the other to the Giver of Increase, and they have a building there where they celebrate their mysteries in honor of Dionysus.
There is also in Heraea a temple of Pan, as he is native to Arcadia.
Of the temple of Hera I found remaining various ruins, including the pillars.
MAGOULIANA (Village) VYTINA
There is in Methydrium a temple of Horse Poseidon, standing by the Mylaon.
OGION (Ancient city) TROPEA
The Ladon, leaving on the left the sanctuary of the Fury, passes on the left the temple of Oncaeatian Apollo.
THELPOUSSA (Ancient city) TROPEA
Thelpusa has a temple of Asclepius and a sanctuary of the twelve gods.
ZITIA (Ancient city) GORTYS
In Zoetia, however, there still remains a temple of Demeter and Artemis.
ELLINIKON (Village) TRIKOLONES
Tomb.
LYKEON (Mountain) ARCADIA
Among the marvels of Mount Lycaeus the most wonderful is this. On it is a precinct of Lycaean Zeus, into which people are not allowed to enter. If anyone takes no notice of the rule and enters, he must inevitably live no longer than a year. A legend, moreover, was current that everything alike within the precinct, whether beast or man, cast no shadow.
IREA (Ancient city) ARCADIA
Walks have been made along the river, separated by myrtles and other cultivated trees; the baths are there, as are also two temples to Dionysus.
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