Eutea


Map of the Peloponnese with the location of some of the major cities of ancient Arcadia. Eutea was in the south.

Eutea is the name of an ancient Greek city of Arcadia.

According to Xenophon, Eutea, which was near the border with Laconia, was taken by Agesilaus II, in his campaign of the year 370 BC. C. against the Arcadia League. The city was inhabited at that time by elders, women and children, since the men of war age had gone to form part of the Arcadian army. Agesilao respected the inhabitants of Eutea, left them to reside there and even repaired the walls of the city, while he was preparing to attack the city of Mantinea.

Pausanias says that it was one of the populations belonging to the territory of Ménalo that came together to populate Megalopolis.

It is located in the current population of Lianos.

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