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🌍 Megalopolis (Arcadia)

  • <span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="11290684" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_11290684">📖 Homer, Iliad 9.270-9.320</span>
  • Information
    Arcadian city founded in the 4th century BCE
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570467
    Cult site of
    👤 Asclepios 👤 Demeter 👥 the Muses 👤 Persephone 👤 Cybele
    Relics preserved on site
    🏺 the Bones of Hopladamos
    Encompases
    🌍 the Sanctuary of the Great Goddesses at Megalopolis (Arcadia) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Asclepios Pais at Megalopolis (Arcadia)
    Reported to have depictions of
    👤 Pan (god)
    Related Entities
    👤 Asclepios 👤 Clytaimnestra 👤 Demeter 👤 Orestes (s. of Agamemnon) 👥 the Muses 👤 Persephone 👤 Tyndareos 🌍 the Areiopagos (Athens) 🌍 Hire (Messenia) 🌍 River Helisson (Arcadia) 🌍 Mainalos (Arcadia) 👤 Cybele 🌍 Megalopolis (Arcadia) 🏺 the Bones of Hopladamos 🏛️ the Tomb of Oicles (Arcadia) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Asclepios Pais at Megalopolis (Arcadia)
    Mentioned by
    📖 Pausanias 8.36.6 📖 Pausanias 8.32.5 📖 Pausanias 8.30.4 📖 Pausanias 8.32.2 📖 Pausanias 8.30.2-8.30.3 📖 Pausanias 8.34.1-8.34.4 📖 Pausanias 8.30.6-8.30.7 📖 Strabo 8.4.5
    Mentioned in Text
    Pausanias Strabo
    Mentioned in citation of
    📖 Homer, Iliad 9.270-9.320
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