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ATHINEON (Ancient city) VALTETSI
Athenaeum (Athenaion). A fortress in the S. of Arcadia, and in the territory of Megalopolis, is described by Plutarch as a position in advance of the Lacedaemonian frontier (embole tes Lakonikes), and near Belemina. It was fortified by Cleomenes in B.C. 224, and was frequently taken and retaken in the wars between the Achaean League and the Spartans. Leake supposes that it occupied the summit of Mount Tzimbaru, on which there are some remains of an Hellenic fortress. In that case it must have been a different place from the Athenaeum mentioned by Pausanias on the road from Megalopolis to Asea, and 20 stadia from the latter. (Plut. Cleom. 4; Pol. ii. 46, 54, iv. 37, 60, 81; Paus. viii. 44. § § 2, 3; Leake, Peloponnesiaca, p. 248.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
ORESTHION (Ancient city) VALTETSI
Oresthasion, Orestheion, Oresteion. A town in the south of Arcadia,
in the district of Maenalia, a little to the right of the road, leading from Megalopolis
to Pallantium and Tegea. Its inhabitants were removed to Megalopolis on the foundation
of the latter city. Its territory is called Oresthis by Thucydides (iv. 134),
and in it was situated Ladoceia, which became a suburb of Megalopolis. (Ladokeia)
Leake places Oresthasium at or near the ridge of Tzimbaru, and conjectures that
it may have occupied the site of the village of Marmara or Marmaria, a name often
attached in Greece to places where ancient wrought or sculptured stones have been
found.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
(Oresteion) or Orestheum (Orestheion), also called Oresthasium (Oresthasion) by Pausanias. A town of Arcadia, southeast of Megalopolis, in the district of Oresthis. Its ruins, according to Pausanias, were to be seen to the right of the road leading from Megalopolis to Tegaea. Orestes died here.
To the south of the Rapsomati village.
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