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See also:AGORA OF See also:MANTINEIA . By permission from plans by F.de Bills, Fougres, ds See also:Mood, In the Bulletin de See also:Correspondence HeBF.nique.requ . See also:Scale of Melyds S to ?r 3 ? 4 ? S° Scale' of Yards to ¢: o{ ru w ~0 40 ~o too i O. z policies . About 469 B.C . See also:Mantineia alone of Arcadian See also:town-snips refused to join the See also:league of See also:Tegea and See also:Argos against See also:Sparta . Though formally enrolled on the same See also:side during the Peloponnesian See also:War the two cities used the truce of 423 to wage a fierce but indecisive war with each other . In the See also:time following the See also:peace of See also:Nicias the Mantineians, whose attempts at expansion beyond See also:Mount Maenalus were being foiled by Sparta, formed a powerful See also:alliance with Argos, Ells and See also:Athens (420), which the Spartans, assisted by Tegea, See also:broke up after a pitched See also:battle in the See also:city's territory (418) . In the subsequent years Mantineia still found opportunity to give the Athenians covert help, and during the Corinthian War (394-387) scarcely disguised its sympathy with the See also:anti-Spartan league . In 385 the Spartans seized a pretext to besiege and dismantle Mantineia and to scatter its inhabitants among four villages . The city was reconstituted after the battle of See also:Leuctra and under its statesman Lycomedes played a prominent See also:part in organizing the Arcadian League (370) . But the See also:long-See also:standing See also:jealousy against Tegea, and a See also:recent one against the new See also:foundation of See also:Megalopolis, created dissensions which resulted in Mantineia passing over to the Spartan side . In the following See also:campaign of' 362 Mantineia, after narrowly escaping See also:capture by the Theban See also:general See also:Epaminondas, became the See also:scene of a decisive conflict in which the latter achieved See also:Broker & Coasrell sc . See also:Achaeans and jealousy of Megalopolis, was punished in 222 by a thorough devastation of the city, which was now reconstituted as a dependency of Argos and renamed Antigoneia in See also:honour of the Achaeans' ally Antigonus Doson . Mantineia regained its autonomous position in the Achaean League in 192, and its See also:original name during a visit of the See also:emperor See also:Hadrian in A.D . 133 . Under the later See also:Roman See also:Empire the city dwindled into a See also:mere See also:village, which since the 6th See also:century See also:bore the See also:Slavonic name of Goritza . It finally became a See also:prey to the See also:malaria which arose when the See also:plain See also:fell out of cultivation, and under See also:Turkish See also:rule disappeared altogether . (M . O . B . C.) The site was excavated by M . See also:Fougeres, of the 'See also:French School at Athens, in 1888 ..
The See also:plan of the See also:agora and adjacent buildings has been recovered, and the walls have been completely investigated
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The town was situated in an unusual position for a See also:Greek city, on a See also:flat marshy plain, and its walls See also:form a See also:regular See also:ellipse about 21 M. in circumference
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When the town was first formed in 470 B.C. by the " synoecism " of the neighbouring villages, the See also:river Ophis flowed through the midst of it, and the Spartan See also:
The foundations cf a square See also:market-See also: V . See also:Head, Historia numorum (See also:Oxford, 1887), pp . 376-377; G . Fougeres in Bulletin de correspondance hellenique (1890), id . Mantinie et l'Arcadie orientale (See also:Paris, 1898) . Consult also TEGEA; See also:ARCADIA . Five battles are recorded to have been fought near Mantineia; 418, 362 (see above), 295 (See also:Demetrius Poliorcetes defeats Archidamus of Sparta), 242 (See also:Aratus beats See also:Agis of Sparta), 207 (See also:Philopoemen heats Machanidas of Sparta) . The battles of 362 and 207 are, discussed at length by J . Kromayer, Antike Schlachtfelder in Griechenland (See also:Berlin, 1903), 27–123, 281–314; Wiener Studien (1905), pp . 1-16 . (E . |
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