Dipaia
Di'paia ( Greek Δίπαια , Latin Dipaea ; inhabitants: Διπαιεύς , plural: Διπαιεῖς ) was an ancient Greek city in Arcadia , in the Mainalia countryside, perhaps directly on the Helisson river or in the Mainalios mountains, in any case near Tegea , for Herodotus also mentions Dipaia according to Tegea in connection with five battles with which 470 BC. The Spartans regained supremacy in the Peloponnese .
Later the inhabitants of Dipaia had to leave their city. They were probably settled together with other Arcadian cities in the city of Megalopolis , newly founded by the Thebans (371 BC).
The exact location of the city is unknown. Only mentioned but not described by Pausanias , it is still often identified by travel guides and locals today with the ruins near Davia (= Δαβιά) and therefore with Davia itself (= medieval Tavia), the main town of today's Falanthos community .
literature
- Dipaea . In: William Smith (Ed.): Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography . London 1854 ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herodotus 9.35: οἱ δὲ πέντε ἀγῶνες οἵδε ἐγένοντο, εἷς μὲν καὶ πρῶτος οὗτος ὁ ἐν Πλαταιῇσι, ἐπὶ δὲ ὁ ἐν Τεγέῃ πρὸς Τεγεήτας τε καὶ Ἀργείους γενόμενος , μετὰ δὲ ὁ ἐν Διπαιεῦσι πρὸς Ἀρκάδας πάντας πλὴν Μαντινέων ... = "The following five battles took place, one and the first, the (battle) in Plataiai, then there was the (battle) in Tegea against the Tegeates and the Argeians, then the (battle) with the Dipaiians against all Arcadians except the Mantinians .. .. "
- ↑ Pausanias 8,27,3: πόλεις δὲ τοσαίδε ἦσαν ὁπόσας ὑπό τε προθυμίας καὶ διὰ τὸ ἔχθος τὸ Λακεδαιμονίων πατρίδας σφίσιν οὔσας ἐκλιπεῖν ἐπείθοντο οἱ Ἀρκάδες , Ἀλέα Παλλάντιον Εὐταία Σουμάτειον Ἀσέα Περαιθεῖς Ἑλισσὼν Ὀρεσθάσιον Δίπαια ... = "the Arcadians were because of their desire and because of the hatred of the Spartans persuaded to leave the following cities - it was their homeland: Alea, Pallantion, Eutaia, Soumateion, Asea, Peraitheis, Helisson, Oresthasion, Dipaia ... "
- ↑ Pausanias 3,11,7: οἱ δὲ Διπαιεῖς ἐν τῇ Μαιναλίᾳ πόλισμα Ἀρκάδων ἦσαν = "the Dipaians were in (the landscape) Mainalia, a city of the Arcadians".