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A'leus

Ἀλεός), a son of Apheidas, and grandson of Arcas. He was king of Tegea in Arcadia, and married to Neaera, and is said to have founded the town of Alea and the first temple of Athena Alea at Tegea. (Paus. 8.23.1, 4.3, &c.; Apollod. 3.9.1.) [ALEA.]

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    • Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library, 3.9.1
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8.4.3
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8.23.1
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