Posted on 12/04/2009 1:40:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The first stage of a five-year (2009-2013) excavation project in Ancient Tegea, near Tripolis, has been completed by an international team of archaeologists led by the Norwegian Institute in Athens in Collaboration with the Greek culture ministry's 38th Ephoria for Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities and 25th Ephoria of Byzantine Antiquities.
The area of excavation is a field located to the west of the theatre and the Basilica of Thyrsos, where magnetometer survey 2003-2004 documented the probable location of a major north-south street and a stoa bordering the agora...
Tegea was a settlement in ancient Greece, and it is also a municipality in modern Arcadia, with its seat in the village Stadio.
Ancient Tegea was an important religious center of ancient Greece, containing the Temenos (Temple) of Athena Alea. The temenos was founded by Aleus. Votive bronzes at the site from the Geometric and Archaic periods take the forms of horses and deer; there are sealstones and fibulae. In the Archaic period the nine villages that underlie Tegea banded together in a synoecism form one city. Tegea was listed in Homer's Catalogue of Ships as one of the cities that contributed ships and men for the Achaean assault on Troy.
Tegea struggled against Spartan hegemony in Arcadia and was finally conquered ca 560 BCE. In the fourth century Tegea joined the Arcadian League and struggled to free itself from Sparta.
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No evidence of canibalism?
Ahh yes...”Spartan hegemony...”....chaps were all into that as I remember.
Something about protesting the apparel codes...restrictions on loin-cloth wear after 2:00 p.m. as I remember. Messing about barefoot a lot. Also that bit about body-hair removal and leaving cloggy razors laying out....poor form.
Plus, y’know, the whole darned outfit was queer.
Black soup.
I'll have the Persian Dip with a side of flies!
Name Brand clothing back then: Tegea Togas
(See Herodotus I.67-68.)
The ancient Greeks and Romans recorded what were apparently fossil forms, including various extinct elephant-type critters which were the source for Cyclops legends. On at least one occasion, the supposed bones of some specific mythological character were found, and given proper reburial. :’)
Yup, and there are probably a few topics about it as well, but I’m too lazy to look right now. :’)
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