Trapezus,_Arcadia

Trapezus (Arcadia)

Trapezus (Arcadia)

Town of ancient Arcadia

Trapezus or Trapezous (Ancient Greek: Τραπεζοῦς), also known as Trapezuntus or Trapezountos (Τραπεζοῦντος), was a town of ancient Arcadia, in the district Parrhasia, a little to the left of the river Alpheius. It is said to have derived its name from its founder Trapezeus, the son of Lycaon, or from trapeza (τράπεζα, 'a table') because Zeus here overturned the table on which Lycaon offered him cooked human flesh.[1][2] The mythological Arcadian king Hippothous was said to have transferred the seat of government from Tegea to Trapezus. On the foundation of Megalopolis, in 371 BC, the inhabitants of Trapezus refused to remove to the new city; and having thus incurred the anger of the other Arcadians, they quitted Peloponnesus, and took refuge in Trapezus on the Pontus Euxeinus (modern Trabzon), where they were received as a kindred people. The statues of some of their gods were removed to Megalopolis, where they were seen by Pausanias.[3][4][5]

Its site is located near modern Mavria,[6][7] in the municipal unit of Gortyna.[8]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Pausanias (1918). "3.2". 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.
  2. [2]
    Apollod. 3.8.1.
  3. [3]
    Pausanias (1918). "5.4". 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., 8.27.4-6, 8.29.1, 8.31.5.
  4. [4]
    Herodotus. Histories. Vol. 6.127.
  5. [5]
    Stephanus of Byzantium. Ethnica. Vol. s.v.
  6. [6]
    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.
  7. [7]
    Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
  8. [8]
    Ancient Trapezounta

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

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