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KANDILA (Village) LEVIDI
The rain-water, flowing through a deep gully between the city and Mount Trachy, descends to another Orchomenian plain, which is very considerable in extent, but the greater part of it is a lake.
MANTHYREA (Ancient city) TEGEA
In Arcadia.
SKOPI (Village) TRIPOLI
Place near Mantinea.
TEGEA (Ancient city) ARCADIA
The Tegeans say that in the time of Tegeates, son of Lycaon, only the district got its name from him, and that the inhabitants dwelt in parishes, Gareatae, Phylacenses, Caryatae, Corythenses, Potachidae, Oeatae, Manthyrenses, Echeuethenses. But in the reign of Apheidas a ninth parish was added to them, namely Apheidantes.
The lofty place, on which are most of the altars of the Tegeans, is called the place of Zeus Clarius (Of Lots), and it is plain that the god got his surname from the lots cast for the sons of Arcas. Here the Tegeans celebrate a feast every year. It is said that once at the time of the feast they were invaded by the Lacedaemonians. As it was snowing, these were chilled, and thus distressed by their armour, but the Tegeans, without their enemies knowing it, lighted a fire. So untroubled by the cold they donned, they say, their armour, went out against the Lacedaemonians, and had the better of the engagement.
AKAKISSION (Ancient city) MEGALOPOLI
After crossing the river it is two stades from the Alpheius to the ruins of Macareae, from these to the ruins of Daseae seven stades, and seven again from Daseae to the hill called Acacesian Hill. At the foot of this hill used to be a city Acacesium.
AKRA (Settlement) TEGEA
Hill near Tegea.
ARACHAMITES (Village) VALTETSI
Stream in Arcadia.
ARKADIA (Ancient area) PELOPONNISOS
Mountain of Arcadia.
ASTROS (Port) ARCADIA
Astrum (Astron: Astro). A town in Cynuria on the coast, and the first town in Argolis towards the frontiers of Laconia. It is mentioned by Ptolemy alone (iii. 16. § 11), but is conjectured by Leake to have been the maritime fortress in the building of which the Aeginetae were interrupted by the Athenians in the eighth year of the Peloponnesian war. (Thuc. iv. 57.) The place was situated on a promontory, which retains its ancient name. Here there are still considerable remains of an ancient wall. (Leake, Morea, vol. ii. p. 484, seq.; Ross, Peloponnes, p. 162.)
DOLIANA (Small town) ASTROS
River of Arcadia.
FALANTHOS (Ancient city) ARCADIA
One of the men who introduced mysteries of Great Goddesses into Megalopolis, plain of.
Mountain of Arcadia.
KAFYES (Ancient city) LEVIDI
Oligyrtus (Oligurtos, Polyb. iv. 11, 70; Onogurtos, Plut. Cleom. 26),
a mountain and fortress situated in a pass between Stymphalus and Caphyae. Leake
places it on a small advanced height of Mt. Skipezi, projecting into the Stymphalian
plain, on the crest of which are the foundations of a Hellenic wall, formed of
large quadrangular stones. (Leake, Morea, vol. iii. p. 114; Boblaye, Recherches,
&c. p. 154; Curtius, Peloponnesos, vol. i.p. 217.)
KAPSAS (Village) MANTINIA
Plain near Mantinea.
KERASSITSA (Village) TEGEA
Mountain in Arcadia.
There is on the way to Tegea a fountain called Leuconian.
KROMI (Ancient city) FALESSIA
Place in Arcadia.
LEVIDI (Small town) MANTINIA
Mountain of Arcadia.
The flat area to the east of Levidi, where in 370 BC a battle between Mantineans and Orchomenians took place. Xenophon refers to this battle (Hell. 6,5,13) (Ekd. Athinon, Pausanias’ Periegissis, vol. 4, p. 222, note 1).
Place in Arcadia.
LIBOVISSI (Village) ARCADIA
Anemosa (Anemasa), a village of Arcadia in the district Maenalia on the Helisson near Zibovisi. (Pans. viii. 35. § 9; Leake, Peloponnesiaca, p. 238.)
LYKEA (Ancient city) ARCADIA
Lycaeus (Lukaios). A lofty mountain in Arcadia, northwest of Megalopolis, one of the chief seats of the worship of Zeus and of Pan, each of whom was therefore called Lycaens.
MAINALON (Ski centre) ARCADIA
A spring.
MANTINIA (Ancient city) ARCADIA
River at Mantinea.
Oak-wood near Mantinea, referred to in ambiguous oracle.
After crossing into Mantinean country over Mount Artemisius you will come to a plain called the Untilled Plain, whose name well describes it, for the rain-water coming down into it from the mountains prevents the plain from being tilled.
Mount.
MEGALOPOLIS (Ancient city) ARCADIA
Hill at Megalopolis.
Spring at Megalopolis.
Place near Megalopolis.
MENALIA (Ancient area) ARKADIA
Plain in Arcadia, cities of.
Ladoceia (ta Ladokeia), a place in Arcadia, in the district Maenalia, and, after the building of Megalopolis, a suburb of that city, was situated upon the road from the latter to Pallantium and Tegea. Here a battle was fought between the Mantineians and Tegeatae, B.C. 423, and between the Achaeans and Cleomenes, B.C. 226. Thucydides calls it Laodicium (Laodikion) in Oresthis. (Paus. viii. 44. § 1; Thuc. iv. 134; Pol. ii. 51, 55.)
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MENALON (Mountain) LEVIDI
Mountain of Arcadia.
Meetings of, place in Arcadia.
METHYDRION (Ancient city) VYTINA
River of Arcadia.
NEOCHORI (Village) FALESSIA
Place in Arcadia.
NESTANI (Acropolis) MANTINIA
For it is said that by this Nestane Philip made an encampment, and the spring here they still call Philippium after the king.
By Nestane there lies, on lower ground, about . . . itself too forming part of the Untilled Plain, and it is called the Dancing Floor of Maera.
NYMFASSIA (Village) VYTINA
Spring in Arcadia .
ORCHOMENOS (Ancient city) LEVIDI
Opposite the city is Mount Trachy (Rough).
On the road to Pheneus you will come to a mountain. On this mountain meet the boundaries of Orchomenus, Pheneus and Caphya. Over the boundaries extends a high crag, called the Caphyatic Rock.
Springs near Orchomenus in Arcadia.
PALLANTION (Ancient city) TRIPOLI
Near Pallantium, dyke serving as dam.
The plain of Pallantium you reach by turning aside to the left from the Dyke.
PANAGITSA (Village) LEVIDI
Place in Arcadia.
PARALONGI (Village) KONTOVAZENA
Oak forest in Arcadia (Paus. 8,25,1). In that forest there was a shrine of Aphrodite Erycine (Ekd. Athinon, Pausaniou Periegissis, vol. 4, p.275, note 4).
PIANA (Village) FALANTHOS
Place in Arcadia.
PIKERNI (Village) MANTINIA
Place near Mantinea.
RAPSOMMATIS (Village) MEGALOPOLI
Place in district of Megalopolis.
TEGEA (Ancient city) ARCADIA
The territory of Tegea N. of the city, towards Mantineia, is a plain
of considerable size, and is usually called the Tegeatic plain (Tegeatikon pedion).
There was a smaller plain, separated from the former by a low range of mountains
S. of Tripolitza, and lying between Tegea and Pallantium: it was called the Manthyric
plain (Manthurikon pedion), from Manthyrea, one of the ancient demi of Tegea,
the ruins of which are situated SW. of Tegea, on a slope of Mt. Boreium. (Paus.
viii. 44. § 7, comp. viii. 45. § 1, 47. § 1; Steph. B. s. v. Manthurea.) The remainder
of the Tegeatis on the E. and S. is occupied by the mountains separating it from
Argolis and Sparta respectively, with the exception of a small plain running eastward
from the Tegeatic plain to the foot of Mt. Parthenium, and probably called the
Corythic plain, from Corytheis, one of the ancient demi of Tegea, which was situated
in this plain. (Paus. viii. 45. § 1, 54. § 4.)
The plain of Tegea having no natural outlet for its waters is drained
by natural chasms through the limestone mountains, called katavothra. Of these
the two most important are at the modern village of Persova and at the marsh of
Taki. The former is situated in the Corythic plain above mentioned, at the foot
of Mt. Parthenium, and the latter is the marsh in the Manthyric plain. SW. of
Tegea. The chief river in the district is now called the Sarantapotamos, which
is undoubtedly the Alpheius of Pausanias (viii. 54. § 1, seq.). The Alpheius rose
on the frontiers of Tegea and Sparta, at a place called Phylace (Phulake, near
Krya Vrysis), one of the ancient demi of Tegea, and, as we may infer from its
name, a fortified watch-tower for the protection of the pass. A little beyond
Phylace the Alpheius receives a stream composed of several mountain torrents at
a place named Symbola (Sumbola); but upon entering the plain of Tegea its course
was different in ancient times. It now flows in a north-easterly direction through
the plain, receives the river of Dhuliana (the ancient Garates, Garates, Paus.
viii. 54. § 4), flows through the Corythic plain, and enters the katavothra at
Persona/. Pausanias, on the other hand, says (viii. 54. § 2) that the Alpheius
descends into the earth in the Tegeatic plain, reappears near Asea (SW. of Tegea),
where, after joining the Eurotas, it sinks a second time into the earth, and again
appears at Asea. Hence it would seem that the Alpheius anciently flowed in a north
a north-westerly direction, and entered the katavothra at the marsh of Taki, in
the Manthyric plain. There is a tradition among the peasants that the course of
the river was changed by a Turk, who acquired property in the neighbourhood, because
the katavothra at the Taki did not absorb quickly enough the waters of the marsh.
The Garates therefore anciently flowed into the katavothra at Persova without
having any connection with the Alpheius. It probably derived its name from Garea
or Gareae, one of the ancient demi of Tegea, which may have been situated at the
village of Dhuliana. (Ross, Peloponnes, p. 70, seq.; Leake, Peloponnesiaca, p.
112, seq.)
This extract 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
To the north of the temple is a fountain, and at this fountain they say that Auge was outraged by Heracles.
TOUTHOA (Settlement) LAGADIA
Place in Arcadia.
TRAPEZOUS (Ancient city) GORTYS
Place in Arcadia.
Bathos, a place of Arcadia in the district Parrhasia, between Trapezus and Basilis. Near to a neighbouring fountain called Olympias fire was seen to issue from the ground. In the ravine, which Pausanias indicates by the name bathos, the earth burnt for several years about 30 or 40 years ago, but without any flames.
TROPEA (Village) ARCADIA
Place in Arcadia.
VELIMACHI (Village) KONTOVAZENA
River of Arcadia.
VOURVOURA (Village) SKYRITIDA
Place in valley of Alpheus.
VYTINA (Village) ARCADIA
It is to the east of the village and it is thought to be the spring that is mentioned by Pausanias (8,36,4). (Ekd. Athinon, Pausaniou Periegissis, vol. 4, p. 328, note 5).
YPSOUS (Ancient city) TRIKOLONES
Mountain of Arcadia.
ZIGOVISTI (Village) DIMITSANA
Anemosa (Anemasa), a village of Arcadia in the district Maenalia on the Helisson near Zibovisi. (Pans. viii. 35. § 9; Leake, Peloponnesiaca, p. 238.)
KAFYES (Ancient city) LEVIDI
Mountain of Arcadia.
ARTEMISSIO (Village) MANTINIA
Spring in Arcadia.
KAFYES (Ancient city) LEVIDI
A little beyond the city is a spring, and by the spring grows a large and beautiful plane tree. They call it Menelais, saying that the plane was planted by the spring by Menelaus, who came to the spot when he was collecting his army against Troy. To-day they give the name Menelais to the spring as well as to the plane.
LADON (River) ARCADIA
River at Psophis, near Pheneus, sometimes called Olbius, tributary of Ladon, spotted fish of.
Aroanius (Aroanios), the name of three rivers in Arcadia.
1. Or Olbius (Olbios), called Anias (Anias) by Strabo, a river rising in the mountains
to the north of Pheneus, and falling into some caverns called katavothra, near
the latter city. When these caverns happened to be blocked up, the waters of the
river overflowed the whole plain, and communicated with the Ladon and the Alpheius.
(Strab. viii. p. 389; Paus. viii. 14. § 3, 15. § 6.)
2. (Katzana), a tributary of the Ladon, and flowing past the western side of Cleitor.
(Paus. viii. 19. § 4, 21. § 1.) Polybius (iv. 70), without mentioning the name
of the river, properly describes it as an impetuous torrent from the neighbouring
mountains. The trout in the Aroanius are said to have sung like thrushes. (Paus.
viii. 21. § 2; Athen. viii. p. 331, e.; Plin. ix. 19; Leake, Morea, vol. ii. pp.
241,263, seq.) This river rose in the Aroanian mountains (ore Aroania, Paus. viii.
18. § 7), now called Khelmos, which is 7726 feet in height. (Leake, Peloponnesiaca,
p. 203.)
3. A tributary of the Erymanthus, flowing on one side of Psophis. (Paus. viii.
24. § 3.)
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
River of Arcadia. It is the river Mostitseiko of today.
River of Arcadia.
River, tributary of Ladon.
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