Megalopolis

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:

1. 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
2. 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
3. Christopher Mee, Antony Spawforth: Greece. An Oxford Archaeological Guide. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2001, pp. 265–268.
4. William Frank Wyatt: Megalopolis, Arkadia, Greece. In: Richard Stillwell u. a. (Eds.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976
5. Simon Hornblower,  “When Was Megalopolis Founded?” The Annual of the British School at Athens, vol. 85, 1990, pp. 71–77

Bronverwijzingen

1. ↑Pausanias' date
2. ↑After this battle [tearless battle] the Arcadians, fearful of the invasions of the Lacedaemonians, founded in a favourable location the city called Great, Megalopolis, by combining to form it twenty3 villages of the Arcadians known as Maenalians and Parrhasians