Archaeological Museum of Tegea information

The Archaeological Museum of Tegea is a museum in Tegea, Arcadia, Greece. 1906 - 1907: Bishop Neilos (Smyrniotopoulos) donates a plot of land at Piali...

Tegea (/ˈtiːdʒiə/; Greek: Τεγέα) was a settlement in ancient Arcadia, and it is also a former municipality in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the...

Archaeological Museum of Tegea: Guide, Athens: Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports/Ephorate of Antiquities of Arcadia. Pausanias, Description of Greece...

during excavations in 1860 and 1910, some of which are exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of Tegea. The remains of a very significant sanctuary dedicated...

figures of Scopas. Works by Scopas are preserved in the British Museum (reliefs) in London; fragments from the temple of Athena Alea at Tegea in the National...

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Murujuga or Burrup Peninsula Ngarrabullgan Keilor archaeological site Sunbury earth rings Kow Swamp Archaeological Site Wurdi Youang Mount William stone axe quarry...

others in the Peloponnesos except the Temple of Athena Alea at Tegea by the beauty of its stone and the harmony of its construction. Pausanias described it...

However, most of them can be found in the big cities like Athens, where the famous New Acropolis Museum and the National Archaeological Museum are located...

received a lock of Medusa's hair from Athena, gave it to Tegea for the city's protection from attack (according to Pausanias, 87.47.5, the lock of hair was given...

Temple of Athena in Tegea, and seem to have also been major patrons of Delphi. After the death of her husband, Ada became the sole satrap of Caria, but...

of Paphos was both very rich and a priest of Venus. Another legend relates that Agapinoras, king of Tegea and Arcadia, came to Paphos after the Trojan...

The boar's hide that was preserved in the Temple of Athena Alea at Tegea in Laconia was reputedly that of the Calydonian Boar, "rotted by age and by now...

statues of Despoina and Demeter are displayed at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. The chthonic goddess worshiped by the Arcadians under the...

and 19th centuries of giant human skeletons may have inspired the case of the "petrified" Cardiff Giant, a famous archaeological hoax.   Living   Deceased...

Cult of Demeter and Kore. Karyai: Cult of Kore and Pluton. Tegea: Cult of Demeter and Kore, the Karpophoroi, "Fruit givers". Megalopolis: Cult of the Great...

located in the Laconian towns of Mantineia and Tegea. The temple of Athena Alea in Tegea was an important religious center of ancient Greece. The geographer...

"far-shining") was the son of Heracles and Auge, who was the daughter of king Aleus of Tegea. He was adopted by Teuthras, the king of Mysia, in Asia Minor,...

3500 BC) Sparta Tegea (ancient religious centre) Tiryns‡ (ancient fortified settlement) ‡ UNESCO World Heritage Site Specialities of the region: Gogges...

white marble, which was once identified as the marble of Doliana, near Tegea, but is now recognised to be Pentelic marble. The three plaques have very...

to Tegea and the rest of Arcadia and Kynouria, there is a small structure extant known as the Pyramid of Hellenikon. Although these structures are of great...

appointment of Otto of Bavaria as King of Greece. He was made deputy curator of antiquities at the Archaeological Museum of Nafplion, then capital of Greece...

and the Cult Statue at Tegea". American Journal of Archaeology. 90 (4): 429. doi:10.2307/506027. ISSN 0002-9114. Hippocrates of Cos (1923). "The Oath"...

"av-YEE") was the daughter of Aleus the king of Tegea in Arcadia, and the virgin priestess of Athena Alea. She was also the mother of the hero Telephus by Heracles...

the Spartan King Leotychidas flees to the temple of Athena Alea in Tegea, Arcadia. A sentence of exile is passed upon him; his house is razed, and his...

occurred in the other Arcadian towns of Tegea and Heraia. In ancient Athens, the villages of Attica combined with the polis of Athens; consequently the "demos"...

Selinus, Tegea, Thoricus, Dion (in Macedonia) Lykosoura, Mesembria, Enna, and Samothrace. Probably the earliest Amphictyony centred on the cult of Demeter...

– grammarian Antyllus – physician Anyte of Tegea – poet Anytos – Athenian general Apega of Sparta – wife of Nabis Apelles – painter Apellicon – book...