Listed 45 sub titles with search on: Ancient literary sources for wider area of: "MANTINIA Province ARCADIA" .
AFIDANTES (Ancient city) TEGEA
Township of Tegea.
AMILOS (Ancient city) LEVIDI
Place in Arcadia.
ASSEA (Ancient city) VALTETSI
City of Arcadia, its ruins. [Some identify Asea with Iasea, but they were probably two different towns (Ekd. Athinon, Pausaniou Periegissis, vol. 4, p.291, note 6).
ATHINEON (Ancient city) VALTETSI
Place near Asea.
DIPEA (Ancient city) FALANTHOS
In Arcadia, scene of a battle about 470 B.C. between Spartans and Arcadians.
ECHEVITHIS (Ancient demos) KORYTHIO
Township of Tegea.
EFTEA (Ancient city) SKYRITIDA
City of Arcadia.
ELISSON (Ancient city) FALANTHOS
City of Arcadia.
FALANTHOS (Ancient city) ARCADIA
City of Arcadia.
FYLAKI (Ancient city) SKYRITIDA
Place at source of Alpheus.
Township of Tegea.
IASSOS (Ancient city) SKYRITIDA
Town on borders of Laconia.
City of Arcadia. [Some identify Asea with Iasea, but they were probably two different towns (Ekd. Athinon, Pausaniou Periegissis, vol. 4, p.291, note 6).
IATES (Ancient city) SKYRITIDA
Township of Tegea.
KAFYES (Ancient city) LEVIDI
City of Arcadia, plain of Caphyae, Caphyatic rock.
KONDYLEA (Ancient location) LEVIDI
Place in Arcadia, near Caphyae. (Paus. 8.23.6)
KORYTHIS (Ancient city) KORYTHIO
Township of Tegea.
LYKOA (Ancient city) FALANTHOS
City of Arcadia.
MAINALON (Ski centre) ARCADIA
Mountain of Arcadia.
MANTHYREA (Ancient city) TEGEA
Township of Tegea.
MANTINIA (Ancient city) ARCADIA
Site of old Mantinea.
City of Arcadia, founded by Mantineus, Penelope said to have given birth to Pan at, its name changed to Antigonea, but afterwards changed back to Mantinea, roads from Argos to Mantinea, M. held by Macedonian garrison but captured by Aratus, ruins of old Mantinea, an arbitrator sent thence to settle the affairs of Cyrene, battle of Mantinea, pictures of battle of Mantinea at Athens and Mantinea, boundary of Mantinean territory.
MENALON (Mountain) LEVIDI
Mount, sacred to Pan.
MENALOS (Ancient city) FALANTHOS
Of old the most famous city of Arcadia.
MERA (Ancient small town) MANTINIA
Village near Mantinea.
NASSI (Ancient small town) LEVIDI
Place in Arcadia beside river Ladon.
NESTANI (Acropolis) MANTINIA
Village of Arcadia.
ORCHOMENOS (Ancient city) LEVIDI
City of Arcadia, boundaries, called `rich in sleep' by Homer, towns belonging to it, Orchomenians of Arcadia at Thermopylae, at Plataea, distinguished from Minyan Orchomenians of Boeotia.
Their muster for the Trojan war.
ORESTHION (Ancient city) VALTETSI
In Arcadia, Orestes killed by snakebite at, later name of Oresthasium.
City of Arcadia, afterwards called Oresteum, its remains, heroic death of 100 men of, Phigalians sacrifice to them annually.
PALISKIOS (Ancient location) VALTETSI
Place in Arcadia.
PALLANTION (Ancient city) TRIPOLI
City of Arcadia, founded by Pallas, granted freedom and immunity from taxes by Antoninus First, plain of.
PARTHENION (Mountain) KORYTHIO
Mount, infant Telephus exposed on.
PERETHEI (Ancient small town) VALTETSI
City of Arcadia.
PETROSSAKA (Ancient small town) FALANTHOS
Place in Arcadia.
POTACHIDES (Ancient city) KORYTHIO
Township of Tegea.
SOUMITIA (Ancient city) FALANTHOS
City of Arcadia.
SYMVOLA (Ancient small town) SKYRITIDA
Place in valley of Alpheus.
TEGEA (Ancient city) ARCADIA
A town in Arcadia, varying event of its wars with Sparta, Leutychides' death there, Phidippides' vision near Tegea, Tegeans at Thermopylae, Tegeans' claim to the post of honour in Pausanias' army, (later) victory of Spartans over Tegea and Argos, Tegean valour at Plataea, Cepheus king of, the city defended against enemies by a lock of the Gorgon's hair, Auge debauched by Herakles at, Arsinoe brought by the sons of Phegeus to, sons of Alcmaeon pursued to, founded by Tegeates, called by poets `the lot of Aphidas,', boundaries of its territory, road from Argos to, at war with Lacedaemon, expedition of Lacedaemonians under king Charillus against, battle of, sanctuary of Athena Alea at Tegea inviolate.
ASSEA (Ancient city) VALTETSI
Then comes the mouth of the Alpheius, which is distant two hundred and eighty stadia from Chelonatas, and five hundred and forty five from Araxus. It flows from the same regions as the Eurotas, that is, from a place called Asea, a village in the territory of Megalopolis, where there are two springs near one another from which the rivers in question flow.
ORCHOMENOS (Ancient city) LEVIDI
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.
TEGEA (Ancient city) ARCADIA
At this juncture arrived word from their friends in Tegea that unless they speedily appeared, Tegea would go over from them to the Argives and their allies, if it had not gone over already. Upon this news a force marched out from Lacedaemon, of the Spartans and Helots and all their people, and that instantly and upon a scale never before witnessed. Advancing to Orestheum in Maenalia, they directed the Arcadians in their league to follow close after them to Tegea, and going on themselves as far as Orestheum, from thence sent back the sixth part of the Spartans, consisting of the oldest and youngest men, to guard their homes, and with the rest of their army arrived at Tegea; where their Arcadian allies soon after joined them.
EFTEA (Ancient city) SKYRITIDA
Agesilaus, then, when his sacrifices at the frontier proved favourable, at once
proceeded to march against Arcadia. And having occupied Eutaea, which was a city
on the border...But since none of the Arcadians appeared, he continued his march
as rapidly as possible to Eutaea, even though it was very late, with the desire
of getting his hoplites away before they even saw the enemy's fires, so that no
one could say that he had withdrawn in flight.
This extract is from: Xenophon, Hellenika. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 1 and 2. Carleton L. Brownson. Harvard University Press, Harvard University Press
Cited Aug 2002 from Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
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