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ALEA (Ancient city) ARGOLIS
Alea (Eth. Aleos, Aleates). A town of Arcadia, between Orchomenus and Stymphalus,
contained, in the time of Pausanias, temples of the Ephesian Artemis, of Athena
Alea, and of Dionysus. It appears to have been situated in the territory either
of Stymphalus or Orchomenus. Pausanias calls Alea a town of the Maenalians; but
we ought probably to read Asea in this passage, instead of Alea. The ruins of
Alea have been discovered by the French Commission in the middle of the dark valley
of Skotini, about a mile to the NE. of the village of Buyati. Alea was never a
town of importance; but some modern writers have, though inadvertently, placed
at this town the celebrated temple of Athena Alea, which was situated at Tegea.
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
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