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	Megalopolis, Greece - tScholars.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Distance from Tripoli, Greece is 30 km from 33, SE of Andritsaina and from Kalamata is 55 km NE on Interstate 7, and E65.
		Megalopolis became the seat of the Arcadian League in 370 BC which in the 3rd century BC became the Achaean League It used to be one of the about 20,000 places that have an ancient theatre.
		In 331 BC, Megalopolis was invaded by the Spartans and had a battle with the Macedonians which the Macedonians made it to help Megalopolis.
	www.tscholars.com /encyclopedia/Megalopoli,_Greece (766 words)

	Greece
		Greece became a province of the Roman Empire, but Greek culture would continue to dominate the eastern Mediterranean and when the Empire finally split in two the Eastern or Byzantine Empire, centered on Constantinople, would remain Greek in nature, as well as encompassing Greece itself.
		Under a negotiated agreement, Greece was given by the EU two years (budgets of 2005 and 2006) to bring the economy in line with the criteria of the European stability pact.
		Greece, before the Ottoman rule, was part of the Eastern Roman Empire or as it is commonly known the Byzantine Empire.
	creekin.net /n73-greece.html (3385 words)

	Greece, Graecia - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		In Greece the ratio of coastline to area is 1:3 1/4, whereas that of the Iberian peninsula is 1:25.
		Northern Greece, to which Epirus and Thessaly belong, is marked off from Central Greece by the deep indentations of the Ambracian Gulf on the West and the Maliac Gulf on the East.
		Central Greece consists of Acarnania and Aetolia on the West, and of Phocis, Boeotia and Attica (with the adjacent island of Euboea) on the East, separated by a group of lesser states, Aenis, Oetaea, Doris, Locris and Phocis.
	www.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T3932 (1844 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Greece
		Greece was not united as one State even in classical times; Alexander's empire included all manner of nations; under Rome the scattered Greeks gradually learned to call themselves Romans.
		The real danger to the ideal of Greater Greece covering all the Balkans was not, is not now, the Turk, who remains always only an unpleasant incident in the history of these lands; it is the presence of other Christian races, Slavs, who dispute the Greek ideal with their languages and national feeling.
		Greece may be a long way behind France or England, in the same class of country; she is simply part of another world compared with Turkey.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06735a.htm (10856 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Philopoemen by Plutarch
		And indeed all Greece (which looked upon him as a kind of latter birth brought forth, after so many noble leaders, in her decrepit age) loved him wonderfully; and, as his glory grew, increased his power.
		Then Timolaus came to Megalopolis, and was entertained by Philopoemen; but struck into admiration with the dignity of his life and manners, and the simplicity of his habits, judging him to be utterly inaccessible to any such considerations, he said nothing, but pretending other business, returned without a word mentioned of the present.
		When Antiochus was overcome, the Romans pressed harder upon Greece, and encompassed the Achaeans with their power; the popular leaders in the several cities yielded before them; and their power speedily, under the divine guidance, advanced to the consummation due to it in the revolutions of fortune.
	classics.mit.edu /Plutarch/philopoe.html (5863 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 317 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Son of Craugis, of Megalopolis in Arcadia, was one of the few great men that Greece produced in the decline of her political independence.
		As soon as it became known that the Spartans were in the city, most of the citizens fled towards Messene; but Philopoemen and a few kindred spirits offered a gallant resistance to the enemy, and their determined and desperate valour gave such employment to the Spartans, as to enable the citizens to escape in safety.
		Eager to revenge his country, Philopoemen joined him with a thousand foot and a body of horse, which Megalopolis placed under his command, and at the head of which he fought in the celebrated battle of Sellasia, in which Cleomenes was utterly defeated, and by which peace was for a time restored to Greece.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2651.html (1026 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for megalopolis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		megalopolis MEGALOPOLIS [megalopolis] [Grgreat city], a group of densely populated metropolitan areas that combine to form an urban complex.
		Arcadia ARCADIA [Arcadia], region of ancient Greece, in the middle of the Peloponnesus, without a seaboard, and surrounded and dissected by mountains.
		It is linked with central Greece by the Isthmus of Corinth, and it is washed by the Aegean Sea on the east and southeast, by the Ionian Sea on the southwest and
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=megalopolis (549 words)

	Arkadia, Arcadia, Tripolis, Megalopolis, Peloponnese, Travel Greece, Greek Islands, Greece Hotels. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The theater was dubbed the largest in Greece by Pausanias (though he said he preferred the one at Epidauros) and its orchestra is nearly twice as large as those at Athens and Epidauros.
		A sill that runs the length of the skanotheka is problematic since it may have protruded into the skene, but it may have only stood a few feet high and merely served as a rest for the stage to be wedged upon to take pressure off the wheels.
		Many of the items recovered from excavations at Megalopolis are now housed in the Panarcadian Archaeological Museum, located in Tripolis, which also is home to the center of archaeological services in the region.
	holidays-in-greece.com /peloponnese/ark (1921 words)

	“A Well-Trimmed Ship”:
		Megalopolis stood only fifty miles northwest of Sparta, and the same distance southeast of the stadium at Olympia.
		The Roman commander in Greece, Quintus Marcius Philippus, requested the Achaean League to soldiers to serve alongside the Romans in the conflict.
		Polybius’ influence may have helped to convince the Romans to incorporation Macedonia into their Imperium as a province, but to leave the rest of Greece with self-government as Roman "allies." Statues were erected to honor Polybius in many parts of Greece to mark his work of intercession and reconstruction.
	www.raleightavern.org /polybius.htm (6735 words)

	Polybius
		Greek historian, a native of Megalopolis in Arcadia, the youngest of Greek cities, which, however, played an honorable part in the last days of Greek freedom as a stanch member of the Achaean League.
		His father, Lycortas, was the intimate friend of Philopoemen, and on the death of the latter, in 182, succeeded him as leader of the league.
		Thus the thrilling story of the Second Punic War is broken in upon by digressions on the contemporary affairs in Greece and Asia.
	www.nndb.com /people/541/000107220 (3203 words)

	Greece - From Megalopolis To Olympia
		The muleteers or agogiats who went along kept up a continual shouting and beating, and my sturdy pony was not relieved of this annoyance until I had thrown away the boy's club, and with pardonable exaggeration threatened to throw him over a precipice if he struck my beast again.
		It is one of the insensible charms of travel in Greece that you may frequently surrender yourself to illusions which for a while there is nothing to disturb.
		The imagination dilates in a con-genial atmosphere, and what you see is some soft refraction of reality, or the diffused glow of a sunset of poetry and tradition not yet faded into night.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles21/greece-29.shtml (3026 words)

	Philopoemen - The Last of the Greeks
		All of Greece loved Philopoemen, as a child of her decrepit age.
		Now Philopoemen became famous all over Greece as a man who in actual fighting was as good as the youngest, and in judgment as good as the oldest, so that there came onto the field of battle no better soldier or commander.
		But when Megalopolis was being attacked by Nabis, Philopoemen left to fight in Crete because his fellow citizens had given the command to other generals, leaving him nothing to do, even though Nabis was at their gates.
	www.e-classics.com /PHILOPOEMEN.htm (4017 words)

	ooBdoo
		Megapolis, megalopolis - an urban area resulted by merging several cities and their suburbs.
		Metropolis can refer to the mother city of a colony, the see of a metropolitan archbishop or a Metropolitan area - a major urban population centre.
		Neapoli(s) 'new city' - common name for daughter foundations of older polis in ancient Greece and Rome including the modern cities of Nablus and Naples.
	www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/?title=Polis (725 words)

	1Places
		Megalopolis Theater, the «largest in Greece» according to Pausanias, is another outstanding sample of the ancient powerful Arcadian Federation.
		An important investment for the District Heating of the Megalopolis City-core is already scheduled, using wasteheat from the Powerstation and Biomass.
		In the sector of culture, the Cultural center of Megalopolis Town as well the town Cultural Society are intensely active.
	users.otenet.gr /~dmegalop/1places.htm (735 words)

	The Wargamer - Battle of Megalopolis 330 BCE
		The Battle of Mice – Megalopolis 330 BC Antipater vs.
		The fierce Battle of Megalopolis is the worst documented major event of the reign of Alexander the Great.
		The final battle, fought near Megalopolis, was a terrible massacre.
	www.wargamer.com /articles/gb-articles/megalopolis.asp (635 words)

	Philopoemen
		Cleomenes, King of the Lacedæmonians, surprised Megalopolis by night, forced the guards, broke in, and seized the market-place.
		Entering into the town himself, he, a private man as he was, refused admission to both the consul of Rome and the general of the Achæans, quieted the disorders in the city, and reunited it on the same terms as before to the Achæan confederacy.
		When Antiochus was overcome, the Romans pressed harder upon Greece, and encompassed the Achæans with their power; the popular leaders in the several cities yielded before them; and their power speedily, under the divine guidance, advanced to the consummation due to it in the revolutions of fortune.
	www.english.upenn.edu /Projects/knarf/Plutarch/philo.html (5897 words)

	The Peloponessus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The mountainous and broken landmass in southern Greece, defined by the Gulf of Corinth to the north, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Aegean Sea to the east.
		In the 18th century the region was granted considerable autonomy under a series of Ottoman Beys appointed from the populace; a vain effort by the Turks, since the Maniot insurrection of 1821 was one of the chief sparks leading to the War of Independence for Greece.
		After 146, the region was Roman territory, but by this time, the city, so long dominated by Sparta or Corinth, had declined in importance to such a degree that it fell into an abandoned state, and is today a half-forgotten set of ruins adjacent to the modern village of Sikióna.
	www.hostkingdom.net /pelop.html (1894 words)

	PhilopÅ“men - Plutarch's Lives
		Then Timolaus came to Megalopolis, and was entertained by PhilopÅ“men; but struck into admiration with the dignity of his life and manners, and the simplicity of his habits, judging him to be utterly inaccessible to any such considerations, he said nothing, but pretending other business, returned without a word mentioned of the present.
		When the war betwixt Antiochus and the Romans broke out in Greece, PhilopÅ“men was a private man. He repined grievously, when he saw Antiochus lay idle at Chalcis, spending his time in unseasonable courtship and weddings, while his men lay dispersed in several towns, without order or commanders, and minding nothing but their pleasures.
		One of the Romans in the time of Greeceâs affliction, after the destruction of Corinth, publicly accusing PhilopÅ“men, as if he had been still alive, of having been the enemy of Rome, proposed that these memorials should all be removed.
	www.constitution.org /rom/plutarch/philopoemen.htm (5809 words)

	Megalopolis
		Megalopolis, or Megalopoli is a town famous for its ancient theatre.
		Megalopolis is a Greek word for Great city.
		It is connected with GR-76 (Krestena Andritsaina –; Megalopoli).
	www.mlahanas.de /Greece/Cities/Megalopolis.html (644 words)

	Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, by Plutarch (chapter27)
		When Craugis died, he repaid the father’s hospitable kindness in the care of the orphan son; by which means Philopoemen was educated by him, as Homer says Achilles was by Phoenix, and from his infancy molded to lofty and noble inclinations.
		Philopoemen finding himself upon this account out of favor with his citizens, induced divers of the little neighboring places to renounce obedience to them, suggesting to them to urge that from the beginning they were not subject to their taxes, or laws, or any way under their command.
		When the war betwixt Antiochus and the Romans broke out in Greece, Philopoemen was a private man. He repined grievously, when he saw Antiochus lay idle at Chalcis, spending his time in unseasonable courtship and weddings, while his men lay dispersed in several towns, without order or commanders, and minding nothing but their pleasures.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /p/plutarch/lives/chapter27.html (5844 words)

	Megalopolis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Megalopolis (Greek: large city, great city) can mean:
		megalopolis or megacity is defined as an extensively large metropolitan area, or a long chain of continuous metropolitan areas.
		Doomed Megalopolis is an animated work of fiction about the supernatural destruction of Tokyo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Megalopolis (104 words)

	Ancient Megalopolis, Greece. Travel guide & tourist information by Hostelbookers.com
		Ancient Megalopolis (Tues–Sun 8.30am–3pm; free) was one of the most ambitious building projects of the Classical age, a city intended by the Theban leader Epaminondas, who oversaw construction from 371 to 368 BC, to be the finest of a chain of Arcadian settlements designed to hold back the Spartans.
		As you approach the site, along a tree-lined track off the Andhrítsena road (signposted "Ancient Theatre"), the countryside is beautiful enough; a fertile valley whose steaming cooling towers seem to give it added grandeur; beyond the river-bed is just a low hill, and no sign of any ruins.
		Only the first few rows are excavated, but the earthen mounds and ridges of the rest are clearly visible as stepped tiers to the summit where, from the back rows, trees look on like immense spectators.
	www.hostelbookers.com /guides/greece/ancient_megalopolis (342 words)

	Greece - TRAVEL
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		Greece Highway 89 Glyka Nera-Sunion (Sunium) mainly Poseidonos Ave.
	www.greece-facts.com /TRAVEL-37.html (271 words)

	Classical Backpacking in Greece - Peloponesse - Megalopolis
		Government: The Federal Constitution of the new Pan Arcadian union was democratic in nature; Megalopolis was just another city in the League in some respects.
		This is also the area where the lodgings for the Ten Thousand were when they met in the city.
		Pausanias describes the history of Megalopolis here (8.27.1), and gives a better description of the buildings and site here (8.32.1).
	www.missouri.edu /~daw262/mega.html (931 words)

	Greek Travel Log - Megalopolis
		One of the early excavators of the theater believed that an entire wheeled skene was rolled onto the stage out of the skanotheka and many other scholars have since followed him, but recently this matter has been questioned.
		The existence of cuttings in the stone floor of the stage and in the skanotheka at Sparta (shown here) and the chance that such a building was used there is very similar to the situation at Megalopolis, but the cuttings might have just been drainage channels or slots for the movable scenery.
		The Modern Town: Megalopolis has unfortunately been characterized by some guide books as a "town you'll want to hurry out of" (but some guide books do not even mention the town!).
	www.missouri.edu /~daw262/megab.html (1075 words)

	Ancient Greek Religion: CULT OF APOLLON 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		His most celebrated shrines in the region were the Ismenian temple of Thebes, where he was honoured as one of the city's patron-gods, and the great oracle at Delphoi in Phokis, the undisputed centre of his cult in the Greek world.
		The Oideion is in every way the finest in Greece, except, of course, the one at Athens.
		Once when the festival was being held, the hour of the sacrifice was near but those sent to fetch the bull had not arrived.
	www.theoi.com /Cult/ApollonCult3.html (3921 words)

	Ancient Greek Religion: CULT OF ATHENA 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Her most important sanctuary in the region was the Alean shrine in the Arkadian town of Tegea.
		Later, oracles were delivered to them from Dodona, telling them what to do to appease the goddess, and in particular they had an image of Athena made with a wound in the thigh.
		In the temple are paintings: one of them, by Polygnotos, represents Odysseus after he has killed the wooers; the other, painted by Onasias, is the former expedition of the Argives, under Adrastos, against Thebes.
	www.theoi.com /Cult/AthenaCult3.html (3338 words)

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