Tegea
Tegea was a settlement in ancient Greece, and it is also a municipality in modern Arcadia, Greece, with its seat in the village Stadio.
Ancient Tegea was an important religious center of ancient Greece,["This sanctuary had been respected from early days by all the Peloponnesians, and afforded peculiar safety to its suppliants" (Pausanias, Description of Greece iii.5.6)] containing the Temple of Athena Alea ("Winged Athena", an archaic iconographic representation). The temenos was founded by Aleus, Pausanias was informed.[ Description of Greece viii.4.8.] 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 to form one city.[Compare the origin of Sparta.] 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. The Temple of Athena Alea burned in 394 BC and was magnificently rebuilt, to designs by Scopas of Paros, with reliefs of the Calydonian boar hunt in the main pediment.[The Calydonian boar and the head of Atalanta have been removed to the National Archaeological Museum of Athens ]The city retained civic life under the Roman Empire; it was sacked in 395 by the Goths. Pausanias visited the city in the second century CE. The "tombs" he saw there were shrines to the chthonic founding daemones: "There are also tombs of Tegeates, the son of Lykaon, and of Maira, the wife of Tegeates. They say Maira was a daughter of Atlas, and Homer makes mention of her in the passage where Odysseus tells to Alkinous his journey to Hades, and of those whose ghosts he beheld there."[Pausanias, Guide to Greece 8.48.6] The site of ancient Tegea is now located within the modern town of Alea, which was referred to as Piali (not to be confused with Palaia Episkopi). Alea is located about 10 kilometers southeast of Tripoli. The municipality of Tegea has its seat at Stadio. The province of Megalopoli is bordered to the west and the province of Kynouria is bordered to the east.
See also
 Communities of Arcadia
External links
Perseus site: Tegea Photo gallery of archaeologuical sites and bibliography.
(Roy George), Temple of Athena Alea at Tegea
GTP - Ancient Tegea
GTP - Municipality of Tegea
GTP - Alea, the present name of Tegea
Tegea - black and white photo essay of the site and related artifacts
Nearest places
Alea
Stadio
Svoleika
Communities
Alea
Episkopi
Garea
Kamari
Kerasitsa, where the politician Gregoris Lambrakis was born in 1912
Lithovounia
Magoula
*Giokareika (pop: 51)
Manthyrea
Mavriki
Psili Vrysi
*Bouzaneika (pop: 45)
Rizes
Stadio
*Agios Sostis
*Akra (pop: 42)
Tziva
Vouno
Stringos-Demiri
Persons
Anyte of Tegea
Cepheus, mythical king and an Argonaut
Gregoris Lambrakis
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