Thelpusa

Coordinates: 37°42′38″N 21°52′44″E / 37.710489°N 21.87884°E / 37.710489; 21.87884
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Thelpusa or Thelpousa (

Tripolis, and Theisoa. The town is said to have derived its name from a nymph, the daughter of the Ladon
, which nymph was probably the stream flowing through the lower part of the town into the Ladon.

It is first mentioned in history in 352 BCE, when the

Apollo, is said once to have reigned.[9][10] Below this temple stood the temple of Apollo Oncaeates, on the left bank of the Ladon, and on the right bank that of the boy Asclepius, with the sepulchre of Trygon, said to have been the nurse of Asclepius.[11]

The ruins of Thelpusa stand upon the slope of a considerable hill near the village of Vánena (or Vanaina), north of Toubitsi.[12][13] When visited in the 19th century, it was described as bearing only few traces of the walls of the city. At the ruined church of St. John, near the rivulet, there were some Hellenic foundations and fragments of columns. The saint is probably the successor of Asclepius, whose temple, as we learn from Pausanias, stood longest in the city. There were likewise the remains of a Roman building, about 12 yards (metres) long and 6 wide, with the ruins of an arched roof. There are also near the Ladon some Hellenic foundations, and the lower parts of six columns. Below Vánena there stands upon the right bank of the Ladon the ruined church of St. Athanasius the Miraculous, where William Martin Leake found the remains of several columns. Pausanias, in describing the route from Psophis to Thelpusa, after mentioning the boundaries between the territories of the two states, first crosses the river Arsen, and then, at the distance of 25 stadia, arrives at the ruins of a village Caus and a temple of Asclepius Causius, erected upon the roadside. From this place the distance to Thelpusa was 40 stadia.[14]

References

  1. ^ Diodorus Siculus. Bibliotheca historica (Historical Library). Vol. 16.39.6.
  2. ^ Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 2.54, 4.60, 4.73, 4.77.
  3. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v. Τέλφουσα.
  4. ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia. Vol. 4.6.20.
  5. ^ Pausanias (1918). "25.3". 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.
  6. ^ Pausanias (1918). "25.2". 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.-3
  7. ^ Lycophron, 1038
  8. ^ Callimachus, fr. 107.
  9. ^ Pausanias (1918). "25.4". 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., et seq.
  10. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v. Ὄγκειον.
  11. ^ Pausanias (1918). "25.11". 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.
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  13. ^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  14. ^ William Martin Leake, Morea, vol. ii. pp. 97, et seq., 250, et seq., Peloponnesiaca, pp. 205, 222, 228.

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

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