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	Sellasia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sellasia, Selasia or Selassia (Greek: Σελλασία) rarely Arakhova is a village and a municipality which this town is the seat of the municipality of Oinounta, Inounta or Inouda (Greek, Modern: Οινούντα, Ancient/Katharevousa: -ous), ancient form: Oinous or Inous, Latin: Oenus located in the northwestern part of the prefecture of Laconia.
		The Oenus river is situated near Sellasia It is also has a tributary with the Gorgylus.
		Afterwards, Sellasia was destroyed and the population was sold as slaves.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sellasia (393 words)

	Sellasia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Sellasia, Selasia or Selassia (Greek: Σελλασία;) rarely Arakhova is a village and a municipality which this town is the seat of the municipality of Oinounta, Inounta or Inouda (Greek, Modern: Οινούντα, Ancient/Katharevousa: -ous), ancient form: Oinous or Inous, Latin: Oenus located in the northwestern part of the prefecture of Laconia.
		Sellasia has a school which is located in the south and the central part, a lyceum, a gymnasium, a church, a small post office and a square (plateia).
		During the first campaign of the Epameinondas around 370, before Sellasia was destoryed by the Peloponnesians.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Sellasia (380 words)

	Sellasia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Sellasia has a school which is located in the south and the central part, a lyceum, a gymnasium, a church, a small post office and a square ((additional info and facts about plateia) plateia).
		The hills with farmlands dominate the areas while the (additional info and facts about Eurotas) Eurotas river is to the east.
		During the first campaign of the Epameinondas around 370 BC, before Sellasia was destroyed by the (additional info and facts about Peloponnesian) Peloponnesians.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/se/sellasia.htm (521 words)

	Vresthena: History
		The precise position of ancient Sellasia has not been determined satisfactorily, but ancient Selassia should not be confused with the modern village of the same name, that is located west of the Tripolis-Sparta National Road.
		With the implementation of the so-called "Kapodistrias" programme for the re-structuring of municipalities and communities throughout Greece, in 1998, the community of Vresthena was merged with its neighbouring ones (of Vamvakou, Varvitsa, Vassaras, Voutianoi, Theologos, Koniditsa and Sellasia) to form the new Municipality of Oenous (of which Sellasia is the seat).
		The total population of the new Municipality of Oenous according to the 2001 census is 2,653 (compared to 2,649 of the 1991 census).
	www.dimaras.gr /vresthena/english/history.htm (1352 words)

	Encyclopedia: Battle of Sellasia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Battle of Sellasia was a war that took place in 222 BC between the armies of Antigonus III Doson, King of Macedonia and Cleomenes III, King of Sparta, the Spartan Forces were massacred and Cleomenes fled to Egypt.
		The Spartan phalanx, under the command of Cleomenes was arranged on a hill named Olympus near Sellasia and were supported by a body of light infantry mercenaries.
		The allied troops of Sparta and the perioikoi phalanx were occupied by the commander Eucleidas on the other hill, Evas at the left wing.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Battle-of-Sellasia (1218 words)

	Encyclopedia: Laconia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Its main towns and cities are Amyclae, Areopolis, Gytheion, Molaoi, Monemvasia, Mystras, Neapoli and Sellasia.
		Sellasia, Selasia or Selassia (Greek: Σελλασία) rarely Arakhova is a village and a municipality which this town is the seat of the municipality of Oinounta, Inounta or Inouda (Greek, Modern: Οινούντα, Ancient/Katharevousa: -ous), ancient form: Oinous or Inous, Latin: Oenus located in the northwestern part of the prefecture of...
		Cape Malea is a peninsula found in the southeast of the Peloponnese in Greece.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Laconia (1922 words)

	My Trip To Greece & Turkey
		The asphalt road which lead us to Sellasia turned to dirt at the other end of town, so the ride to Koniditsa was quite bumpy and dusty.
		After we returned to Sellasia, we all went to the local outdoor garden cafe which was owned by another Anthanasopoulos.
		I am only sorry she couldn't be there with me. I had been afraid that Sellasia would be a disappointment, that it would be a poor, unkempt mountain village with ignorant peasants.
	www.stanford.edu /~economos/hellas/hellas6.htm (2842 words)

	Great Battles of History: Sellasia Background & Variant
		I designed a Sellasia scenario based on the Lyginus map, and submitted it to Richard in 1995.
		In a narrow pass near the Spartan town of Sellasia, flanked by two hills, he drew up his army.
		He placed his elite Spartan phalanx on the rightmost hill, dubbed Olympus (not Mount Olympus, which lies in northern Greece) supported by light mercenary troops.
	patriot.net /~townsend/GBoH/gboh-sellasiavariant.html (1566 words)

	OLYMPUS - LoveToKnow Article on OLYMPUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The peak of Mount Lycaeus in the south-west of Arcadia was called Olympus.
		East of Olympia, on the north bank of the Alpheus, was a hill bearing this name; beside Sellasia in Laconia another.
		The name was even commoner in Asia Minor: a lofty chain in Mysia (Keshish Dagh), a ridge east of Smyrna (Nif Dagh), other mountains in Lycia, in Galatia, in Cilicia, in Cyprus, andc., were all called Olympus.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /O/OL/OLYMPUS.htm (381 words)

	Hellenica - Chapter II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		[6] Sellasia, the bulwark of Sparta in the valley of the Oenus.
		have "in the neighbourhood of," which words are inappropriate at this date, though they may well have been added by some annotator after the Cleomenic war and the battle of Sellasia, B.C. 222, when Antigonus of Macedon destroyed the place in the interests of the Achaean League.
		Theramenes and his companions presently reached Sellasia, and being there questioned as to the reason of their visit, replied that they had full powers to treat of peace.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/historical/Hellenica/chap10.html (1437 words)

	My Trip To Greece & Turkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The sign marking the exit is in both English and Greek which was funny because its spelled exactly the same in both languages.
		A member of the Greek junta dictatorship which took over the country in 1967 was from Sellasia and used his position of power to bring electricity to the village.
		At about the same time, another village member, who had gone off to America and made a fortune, died and left half of it to the village to bring water all the way from Athens.
	www.stanford.edu /~economos/hellas/hellas5.htm (1825 words)

	Sellasia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This page was last modified 11:32, 11 Jun 2005.
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Sellasia contains research on
		Sellasia, Nearest places, Communities and settlements, Historical population, History and See also.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Sellasia (416 words)

	Antigonus III. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The attacks of Cleomenes III on the Achaean League caused its leader, Aratus, to request help from Antigonus, who led his troops south in 224.
		In 222, Antigonus crushed Cleomenes at Sellasia in Laconea and took Corinth as his reward.
		Meanwhile he had reconstituted the Hellenic League, and when he died he left power in Greece as well as Macedon to Philip.
	www.bartleby.com /65/an/Antigons3.html (144 words)

	Attalus: How to use this site
		For example, to find out which ancient writers describe the battle of Sellasia: from the home page choose Index of Names and then click on Se.
		Go down to the name Sellasia, and there you will find an entry "igonus defeats Cleomenes at Sellasia, and forces him to escape from".
		Click on the link at the start of this line, which is 222/15.
	www.attalus.org /info/howto.html (1126 words)

	Cleomenes III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Short of money and men Cleomenes sold 6,000 helots their freedom and hired more mercenaries.
		For his last campaign in 222 BC he faced 28,000 Macedonians with 10,000 Spartans at the Battle of Sellasia on the road to Tegea, but despite a well chosen position and skillful handling the Spartans were overwhelmed.
		Plutarch says that of the 6,000 Lacedaemonians present only 200 survived.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cleomenes_III (389 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Cleomenes by Plutarch
		But Fortune, that loves to determine the greatest affairs by a minute, in this conjuncture showed such an exact niceness of time, that immediately after the battle in Sellasia was over, and Cleomenes had lost his army and his city, the messengers came up and called for Antigonus.
		And this above everything made Cleomenes's misfortune to be pitied; for if he had gone on retreating and had forborne fighting two days longer, there had been no need of hazarding a battle; since upon the departure of the Macedonians, he might have had what conditions he pleased from the Achaeans.
		Better men than we have given way to their enemies, having been betrayed by fortune, or oppressed by multitude; but he that gives way under labour or distresses, under the ill-opinions or reports of men, yields the victory to his own effeminacy.
	classics.mit.edu /Plutarch/cleomene.html (6178 words)

	Hellenica by Xenophon eBook by BookRags
		The famous battle of Sellasia, in the spring of B.C. 221, in which the united Macedonians under Antigonus and the Achaeans finally broke the power of Sparta, was fought in the little valley where the stream Gorgylus joins the river Oenus and the Khan of Krevatas now stands.
		Their first exploit was to burn and ravage the district of Sellasia, but finding themselves ere long in the flat land within the sacred enclosure of Apollo, they encamped for the night, and the next day continued their march along the Eurotas.
		But when it was found that the mercenaries from Orchomenus remained faithful, and reinforcements came to Lacedaemon from Phlius, Corinth, Epidaurus, and Pellene, and some other states, the dread of these new levies was speedily diminished.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/1174/205.html (340 words)

	Plutarch: Life of Cleomenes (2) - translation
		But fortune, who loves to make the greatest affairs turn upon some minute circumstance, showed on this occasion of what consequence a moment or time may be.
		As soon as the battle of Sellasia was fought, and Cleomenes had lost his army and his city, messengers came to call Antigonus home.
		It will be a glorious and happy thing truly for her to show Ptolemaeus's wives her son, of a king become a captive and an exile.
	www.attalus.org /old/cleomenes2.html (5138 words)

	Re: Hannibal & Pyrrhus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Delbuck didn't think so and I don't recall this as being one of Scullard's findings in his "The elephant in the Greek and Roman World" (now out of print I think).
		Returning to the original subject, I note that Antigonus placed Illyrian heavy foot between units of his phalanx at Sellasia.
		As Pyrruhs is credited with putting towers on elephants and giving shields to Greek cavalry, the idea of alternating units of different heavy foot types may be another of his inventions, subsequently copied by Antogonus and Hannibal.
	www.soa.org.uk /_disc/000000fb.htm (111 words)

	Aratus by Plutarch
		So that he may be said to have been the cause that the old memory of the "beautiful Mantinea" has been wholly extinguished and the city to this day has the name of the destroyer and slayer of its citizens.
		After this, Cleomenes, being overthrown in a great battle near Sellasia, forsook Sparta and fled into Egypt, and Antigonus, having shown all manner of kindness and fair-dealing to Aratus, retired into Macedonia.
		When Antigonus was dead, the Aetolians, despising the sloth and negligence of the Achaeans, who having learnt to be defended by other men's valour and to shelter themselves under the Macedonian arms, lived in ease and without any discipline, now attempted to interfere in Peloponnesus.
	www.4literature.net /Plutarch/Aratus/11.html (694 words)

	Laconia Survey Inscriptions
		The stamped tile 18 comes from another dump of building rubble and may have originated in Sparta.
		Stone inscriptions associated with archaeological sites proper numbered only two: 1 (a fragment of a late archaic votive stele from the top of Phagia hill, several kilometres east of Sparta) and 2 (classical gravestone from the foot of Palaiogoulas hill, the probable site of the ancient perioikic polis of Sellasia).
		Their findspots are either in the neighbourhoods of three villges, Chrysapha (15 a, 16 a), Kephalas (15 n), and Sellasia (formerly Vourlia; 15 b-d), or on the Menelaion ridge with its sanctuary of Menelaos and Helen (15 e-j, o, 16 b-e; also a tile-stamp, 16 f).
	www.csad.ox.ac.uk /Laconia/intro.html (886 words)

	Iapetus Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		They also say that Artemis shot Buphagus on Mount Pholoe because he attempted an unholy sin against her godhead.
		Buphagus is a tributary of the river Alpheus, Thornax is a mountain between Sparta and Sellasia, and Pholoe is a mountain between Arcadia and Elis.
		Anchiale, daughter of Iapetus, founded Anchiale (a city near Tarsus): her son was Cydnus, who gave his name to the river at Tarsus: the son of Cydnus was Parthenius, from whom the city was called Parthenia: afterwards the name was changed to Tarsus.
	www.wikiverse.org /iapetus-mythology (359 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.10.25 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Scholten argues that the rise of a Trichonian bloc in federal politics, interested in maintaining marauding opportunities in the Peloponnese, may have had a great deal to do with Aitolia's refusal of Aratos' request for aid against Sparta in 225.
		That was a momentous Aitolian decision on Scholten's reconstruction, as it forced an unwilling Aratos into the arms of Doson and allowed for Antigonid resurgence in the Peloponnese, underscored by the Makedonian occupation of Akrokorinth and the victory at Sellasia.
		The later years of the 220s saw Aitolia fostering ties with the Attalids, Ptolemaic Alexandria, and Krete, and the admission of Kephallenia to the koinon signals Aitolian recovery, though Scholten is reluctant to see all this activity as being directed against Doson.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2000/2000-10-25.html (1843 words)

	222 B.C. - events and references
		Marcellus defeats the Gauls at Clastidium, and kills their chief Viridomarus in single combat.
		Antigonus enters Laconia and encamps opposite Cleomenes at Sellasia.
		Antigonus defeats Cleomenes at Sellasia, and forces him to escape from Sparta.
	www.attalus.org /bc3/year222.html (349 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Philopoemen by Plutarch
		These reasons withheld the Megalopolitans, but gave Cleomenes a pretext to pillage and destroy a great part of the city, and carry away a great booty.
		Awhile after King Antigonus coming down to succour the Achaeans, they marched with their united forces against Cleomenes; who, having seized the avenues, lay advantageously posted on the hills of Sellasia.
		Antigonus drew up close by him, with a resolution to force him in his strength.
	classics.mit.edu /Plutarch/philopoe.html (5863 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: Pausanias: Description of Greece, Book II: Corinth
		It has not been made after the native fashion, but so as to harmonize best with the painting, which is very well worth seeing.
		The Achaeans were victorious, the people of Sellasia were sold into slavery, and Lacedaemon itself was captured.
		Antigonus and the Achaeans restored to the Lacedaemonians the constitution of their fathers;[2.9.3] but of the children of Leonidas, Epicleidas was killed in the battle, and Cleomenes fled to Egypt.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/pausanias-bk2.html (20659 words)

	OLYMPUS - Online Information article about OLYMPUS
		ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr.
		hill bearing this name; beside Sellasia in See also:
		The name was even commoner in Asia II Minor: a lofty See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /NUM_ORC/OLYMPUS.html (463 words)

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