Town of Megalopolis in Arcadia was founded in 371 BC1 or 368 BC2 by the Arcadian League. In 235 BC became a member of the Achaean League. In 222 BC town was burnt by the Spartan king Cleomenes III but it was rebuilt in the years after.
See:
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918
- Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989
- Christopher Mee, Antony Spawforth: Greece. An Oxford Archaeological Guide. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2001, pp. 265–268.
- William Frank Wyatt: Megalopolis, Arkadia, Greece. In: Richard Stillwell u. a. (Eds.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976
- Simon Hornblower, “When Was Megalopolis Founded?” The Annual of the British School at Athens, vol. 85, 1990, pp. 71–77
