[607] Τεγέην: one of the most im portant towns in Peloponnesus before the Dorian invasion.
Μαντινέην: on the road from Arcadia to Argos. 500 hoplites from Mantinea and as many from Tegea were among the Greek forces at Thermopylae, to resist Xerxes.This text is part of:
Homer's Iliad, Books I-III. Thomas D. Seymour. Boston. Ginn and Company. 1891.
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