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LOUTRA (Village) IREA
The founder of Heraea was Heraeeus the son of Lycaon, and the city lies on the right of the Alpheius, mostly upon a gentle slope, though a part descends right to the Alpheius. 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.
LYKEON (Mountain) ARCADIA
Mount, called also Olympus and Sacred Peak.
TEFTHIS (Ancient city) DIMITSANA
Adjoining the land of Theisoa is a village called Teuthis, which in old days was a town. In the Trojan war the inhabitants supplied a general of their own. His name according to some was Teuthis, according to others Ornytus. When the Greeks failed to secure favorable winds to take them from Aulis, but were shut in for a long time by a violent gale, Teuthis quarrelled with Agamemnon and was about to lead the Arcadians under his command back home again. Whereupon, they say, Athena in the guise of Melas, the son of Ops, tried to turn Teuthis aside from his journey home. But Teuthis, his wrath swelling within him, struck with his spear the thigh of the goddess, and actually did lead his army back from Aulis. On his return to his native land the goddess appeared to him in a vision with a wound in her thigh. After this a wasting disease fell on Teuthis, and its people, alone of the Arcadians, suffered from famine. Later, oracles were delivered to them from Dodona, telling them what to do to appease the goddess, and in particular they had an image of Athena made with a wound in the thigh. This image I have myself seen, with its thigh swathed in a purple bandage. There are also at Teuthis sanctuaries of Aphrodite and Artemis.
This extract is from: Pausanias. Description of Greece (ed. W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., & H.A. Ormerod, 1918). Cited April 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
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. These cities had as founders the sons of Lycaon; but Zoetia,
some fifteen stades from Tricoloni, not lying on the straight road but to the
left of Tricoloni, was founded, they say, by Zoeteus, the son of Tricolonus. Paroreus,
the younger of the sons of Tricolonus, also founded a city, in this case Paroria,
ten stades distant from Zoetia. To-day both towns are without inhabitants. In
Zoetia, however, there still remains a temple of Demeter and Artemis. There are
also other ruins of cities: of Thyraeum, fifteen stades from Paroria, and of Hypsus,
lying above the plain on a mountain which is also called Hypsus. The district
between Thyraeum and Hypsus is all mountainous and full of wild beasts. My narrative
has already pointed out that Thyraeus and Hypsus were sons of Lycaon.
ALOUS (Ancient city) KLITORAS
Place(s) in Arcadia.
ENISPI (Ancient city) VYTINA
Island in river Ladon in Arcadia.
GORTYS (Ancient city) ARCADIA
City of Arcadia.
IREA (Ancient city) ARCADIA
City of Arcadia.
KAOS (Ancient city) KONTOVAZENA
Village of Arcadia.
LYKEA (Ancient city) ARCADIA
City of Arcadia.
MARATHA (Ancient city) GORTYS
Place in Arcadia.
MELENEES (Ancient city) IREA
City of Arcadia.
METHYDRION (Ancient city) VYTINA
City of Arcadia, founded by Orchomenus.
OGION (Ancient city) TROPEA
Place in Arcadia.
RETEES (Ancient city) GORTYS
Place in Arcadia where the Gortynius joins the Alpheus.
SCHINOUS (Ancient city) VYTINA
Place in Arcadia.
TEFTHIS (Ancient city) DIMITSANA
City of Arcadia.
THALIADES (Ancient city) KONTOVAZENA
Place in Arcadia.
THELPOUSSA (Ancient city) TROPEA
City of Arcadia.
THISSOA (Ancient city) DIMITSANA
On Mountain Lycaeus, city of Arcadia, in Pausanias's time a village belonging to Megalopolis, its district.
THYREON (Ancient city) TRIKOLONES
City of Arcadia.
TRAPEZOUS (Ancient city) GORTYS
A city of Arcadia, origin of the name, its ruins, Hippothous sets up his kingdom at, ancient wooden images brought from Trapezus to Megalopolis, Trapezuntians depart from Peloponnese.
TRIKOLONI (Ancient city) TRIKOLONES
City of Arcadia, its inhabitants transferred to Megalopolis.
VASSILIS (Ancient city) GORTYS
Pausanias saw the ruin of the city.
VOUFASSION (Ancient city) GORTYS
Place in Arcadia.
VRENTHI (Ancient city) GORTYS
City of Arcadia whose ruins saw Pausanias only and were the springs of the river.
YPSOUS (Ancient city) TRIKOLONES
City of Arcadia.
ZITIA (Ancient city) GORTYS
City of Arcadia.
ENISPI (Ancient city) VYTINA
But three of the cities mentioned by the poet, "Rhipe and Stratie, and windy Enispe," are not only hard to find, but are of no use to any who find them, because they are deserted.
IREA (Ancient city) ARCADIA
But Mantineia itself, as also Orchomenus, Heraea, Cleitor, Pheneus, Stymphalus,
Maenalus, Methydrium, Caphyeis, and Cynaetha, no longer exist; or else traces
or signs of them are scarcely to be seen. And I might almost say that, with only
a few exceptions, the other Peloponnesian places named by the poet were also named
by him, not as cities, but as countries, each country being composed of several
communities, from which in later times the well-known cities were settled. For
instance, in Arcadia, Mantineia was settled by Argive colonists from five communities;
and Tegea from nine; and also Heraea from nine, either by Cleombrotus or by Cleonymus.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo, ed. H. L. Jones, Cambridge. Harvard University Press
Cited Sept. 2002 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
LYKEON (Mountain) ARCADIA
Lycaeus, an Arcadian mountain, out of a spring, which, according to the myth, Rhea, after she had given birth to Zeus, caused to break forth in order to have water to bathe in
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