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Ancient literary sources (12)

Perseus Encyclopedia

Arcadia

ARKADIA (Ancient area) PELOPONNISOS
History, formerly called Pelasgia, boundaries, highest mountain of, kings, cities of A. abandoned to found Megalopolis, part of A. conquered by Orestes, Oresteum in, Lycurgus in, Atalanta in, the hearth of Telephus in, ravaged by a bull, traversed by the mad daughters of Proetus, Stymphalus in, the Cretan bull roams over, Herakles in, Arcas brought up in, Cyllene in, booty of cattle driven from, Mantinea in, its relations with Sparta, a Pelasgian people, preservation of thc cult of Demeter, Cleomenes in Arcadia, Arcadian settlements in Cyprus, Arcadians at Thermopylae, Arcadian deserters to Xerxes, Arcadians in the Greek army on the Isthmus.

Azania

AZANIA (Ancient area) ARKADIA
District of Arcadia.

Eutresia, Eutresians

EFTRYSSIA (Ancient area) ARCADIA
A division of Arcadians. Eutresian cities: Tricoloni, Zoetium, Charisia, Ptolederma, Cnausum, Paroreia. (Paus. 8.27.3)

Aegytians

EGYTIS (Ancient area) ARKADIA
A division of Arcadians, Aegytian district of Arcadia. Cities: Aegys, Scirtonium, Malea, Cromi, Blenina, Leuctrum (Paus. 8.27.4)

Cynurii

KYNOUREI (Ancient tribe) ARCADIA
A division of Arcadians. (Paus. 8.27.4), alleged to be aboriginal (Hdt. 8.73), expelled from Cynuria by Lacedaemonians (Paus. 3.2.2, 3.7.2)
Cities of Cynurians: Gortys, Theisoa by Mount Lycaeus, Lycaea, Aliphera. (Paus. 8.27.4)

Maenalia, Maenalian

MENALIA (Ancient area) ARKADIA
District of Arcadia, bleak.

Parrhasia

PARASSIA (Ancient area) ARKADIA
District of Arcadia, Parrhasians, towns of the Parrhasians.

Rhipe

RIPI (Ancient city) ARCADIA
Place in Arcadia.

Stratia

STRATII (Ancient city) ARCADIA
Place in Arcadia.

Polybius

EGYTIS (Ancient area) ARKADIA
Polyvius refers to it as a country (2,54).

Strabo

Rhipe

RIPI (Ancient city) ARCADIA
But three of the cities mentioned by the poet, "Rhipe and Stratie, and windy Enispe," (Hom. Il. 2.606) are not only hard to find, but are of no use to any who find them, because they are deserted. (Strabo 8.8.2)

Stratie

STRATII (Ancient city) ARCADIA
But three of the cities mentioned by the poet, "Rhipe and Stratie, and windy Enispe," (Hom. Il. 2.606) are not only hard to find, but are of no use to any who find them, because they are deserted. (Strabo 8.8.2)

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