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Arcadia (Greek: Ἀρκαδία, romanized: Arkadía) is a region in the central Peloponnese. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas , and in Greek mythology it was the home of the gods Hermes and Pan .
Arcadia is one of the regions described in the "catalogue of ships" in the Iliad. [13] Agamemnon himself gave Arcadia the ships for the Trojan war because Arcadia did not have a navy. There is a modern regional unit of Greece of the same name, which is more extensive than the ancient region.
Megalopoli Leonidio Karytaina Dimitsana Ancient site of Orchomenus (Arcadia) and the Karst basin, in Pausanias' time (AD 110 – ca. 180) with a lake. The regional unit Arcadia is subdivided into five municipalities. (Numbered as on map in infobox): [8] Gortynia (3) Megalopoli (5) North Kynouria (Voreia Kynouria, 2) South Kynouria (Notia ...
Arcades or Arkades (Ancient Greek: Ἀρκάδες), also Arcadia or Arkadia (Ἀρκαδία), was a town and polis (city-state) [1] of ancient Crete. [2] It disputed the claims of Mount Ida to be the birthplace of Zeus .
The Arcadian League (Ancient Greek: Κοινὸν τῶν Ἀρκάδων) was a league of city-states in ancient Greece. It combined the various cities of Arcadia, in the Peloponnese, into a single state. The league was founded in 370 BC, taking advantage of the decreased power of Sparta, which had previously dominated and controlled Arcadia.
Megalopoli (Greek: Μεγαλόπολη) is a town in the southwestern part of the regional unit of Arcadia, southern Greece. It is located in the same site as ancient Megalopolis (Ancient Greek: Μεγαλόπολις, literally large/great city). When it was founded in 371 BCE, it was the first large urbanization in rustic Arcadia. Its ...
Ancient theater of Mantineia. Some decades later, probably few years before 166 AD, [12] Pausanias visited the area and described the ruins and remains of the city at the time in his 8th book. [13] Modern-day Mantineia is the region around the city of Tripoli in Arcadia, and was named after the namesake city of
Ancient Arcadia geography stubs (144 P) Pages in category "Geography of ancient Arcadia" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.