Maenalus (Arcadia)

Maenalus or Mainalos (Ancient Greek: Μαίναλος) was a town of ancient Arcadia, and the capital of the district Maenalia (Μαιναλία),^[1]^[2] which formed part of the territory of Megalopolis upon the foundation of the latter city. Maenalus was in ruins in the time of Pausanias, who mentions a temple of Athena, a stadium, and a hippodrome, as belonging to the place.^[3]^[4]

According to the myth it was founded by Maenalus, son of Lycaon.^[5]

Its site is tentatively located near the modern Davia.^[6]^[7]

[1]
Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 5.64.
[2]
Pausanias (1918). "11.7". Description of Greece. Vol. 3. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library., 6.7.9, 8.9.4.
[3]
Pausanias (1918). "3.4". Description of Greece. Vol. 8. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library., 8.36.8
[4]
Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
[5]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, Maenalus
[6]
Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
[7]
Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Eutaea". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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