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  www.nyloo.com - Arcadia - Et in Arcadia ego   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The tallest mountains are Maenalon, with a peak of 1,980 m (almost 6,000 feet), and a decent ski center at Ostrakina, and Parnon.
Vitina is built at an altitude of 1,033 m (3,000 feet), in a valley on the side of mount Maenalon.
The approach to the village from Alonistena, through the mountain ridge and the fir and cedar forests, is one of the great mountain drives of Greece.
www.nyloo.com /html/ent/741/ent.40741.1.asp?mid=1   (622 words)

  
 Aphrodite   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Maenalon – place to which Artemis went in order to ask Pan for better hunting dogs.
The god, who was dismembering a lynx to feed his newborn pups when the goddess visited him, gave her three strong agile hounds, capable of cornering lions and dragging them alive to their hiding place.
Maenalon – Place where Artemis, while on her way to bathe with her nymphs, discovered the most beautiful of them all, Callisto, had slept with Zeus.
www.in-crete.co.uk /goddess-tours/aphrodite.htm   (1588 words)

  
 Star Tales – Mons Maenalus
Others, though, say he was actually the son of Arcas and hence the grandson of Callisto.
Either way, Maenalus gave his name to the mountain in Arcadia and to the city of Maenalon which he founded.
Mons Maenalus was sacred to the god Pan who frequented it.
www.ianridpath.com /startales/monsmaenalus.htm   (198 words)

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