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ELISSON (Ancient city) FALANTHOS
Helisson (Paus.); Helissous, (Diod.). a town of Arcadia in the district
Maenalia, situated on Mt. Maenalus near the territory of Mantineia. The town was
taken by the Lacedaemonians in one of their wars with the Arcadians, B.C. 352;
but most of its inhabitants had been previously removed to Megalopolis upon the
foundation of the latter city in 371. Near it rose the liver Helisson, which flowed
through Maenalia into the Alpheius. The site of Helisson is doubtful. Leake places
it at the village Alonistena, from which the river takes its modern name, and
near which it rises; but as there are no ancient remains at this village, Ross
conjectures that its site is represented by the Paleokastron near the village
Piana, lower down the mountain. (Paus. viii. 3. § 3, 27. § § 3, 7, 30. § 1; Diod.
xvi. 39.) The Elisphasii mentioned by Polybius (xi. 11. § 6) are conjectured by
some modern writers to be a corrupt form of Helissontii.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited May 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
FALANTHOS (Ancient city) ARCADIA
Phalanthum (Phalangon: Eth. Phalangios), a town and mountain of Arcadia, in the district Orchomenia, near Methydrium. (Paus. viii. 35. § 9; Steph. B. s. v.; Leake, Peloponnesiaca, p. 240.)
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