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Peloponnesus (Greece) (search for this): book 8, chapter 38
Danube (search for this): book 8, chapter 38
Syene (Egypt) (search for this): book 8, chapter 38
Olympus (Greece) (search for this): book 8, chapter 38
A little farther up is the circuit of the wall of Lycosura, in which there are a few inhabitants. Of all the cities that earth has ever shown, whether on mainland or on islands, Lycosura is the oldest, and was the first that the sun beheld; from it the rest of mankind have learned how to make them cities.
On the left of the sanctuary of the Mistress is Mount Lycaeus. Some Arcadians call it Olympus, and others Sacred Peak. On it, they say, Zeus was reared. There is a place on Mount Lycaeus called Cretea, on the left of the grove of Apollo surnamed Parrhasian. The Arcadians claim that the Crete, where the Cretan story has it that Zeus was reared, was this place and not the island.
The nymphs, by whom they say that Zeus was reared, they call Theisoa, Neda and Hagno. After Theisoa was named a city in Parrhasia; Theisoa to-day is a village in the district of Megalopolis. From Neda the river Neda takes its name; from Hagno a spring on Mount Lycaeus, which like the Danube flows with an equal
Arcadia (Greece) (search for this): book 8, chapter 38
Acarnania (Greece) (search for this): book 8, chapter 38
Nomian Pan (search for this): book 8, chapter 38
Megalopolis (Greece) (search for this): book 8, chapter 38
Crete (Greece) (search for this): book 8, chapter 38
Aetolia (Greece) (search for this): book 8, chapter 38