Qualla: Tegea https://qualla.com/tegea en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/v/tegea-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tegea https://qualla.com/tegea Tegea: Introduction https://qualla.com/tegea/ Photo credit Timeheritage, CC BY-SA 4.0. When Spartan kings fell from grace, they fled to Tegea. Leotychides fled there. Pausanias, son of Pleistoanax, fled there. The seer Hegesistratus fled there. The Temple of Athena Alea in Tegea held the right of asylum — a sanctuary so recognized that even Sparta, the most powerful military state in Greece, respected it. That says something about Tegea's standing. It was not a city that bent easily.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/v/tegea-wp/sqxv-tegea-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tegea: Nine Villages Become One City https://qualla.com/tegea/ Photo credit Timeheritage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tegea sits in the southeastern corner of the Arcadian plateau, 10 kilometers southeast of what is now Tripoli, its territory bounded by mountains — Parthenium to the east, toward Argolis; the highlands of Laconia to the south. In the Archaic period, nine separate townships that o...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/v/tegea-wp/sqxv-tegea-nine-villages-become-one-city.mp3 0:06 2 full Tegea: The Sanctuary That Sheltered Enemies of Sparta https://qualla.com/tegea/ Photo credit Timeheritage, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Temple of Athena Alea was Tegea's greatest institution. The *temenos* — the sacred precinct — was founded by the hero Aleus, whose name the modern village Alea carries still. Votive offerings accumulated there over centuries: bronze horses and deer from the Geometric and Arch...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/v/tegea-wp/sqxv-tegea-the-sanctuary-that-sheltered-enemies-of-sparta.mp3 0:06 3 full Tegea: Sparta's Stubborn Neighbor https://qualla.com/tegea/ Photo credit Timeheritage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tegea and Sparta had a long, complicated relationship. The Tegeatae resisted Spartan expansion for generations — at one point, the Spartan king Charillus invaded Tegeatis, was defeated, and was captured along with all his surviving men. Centuries of intermittent conflict followed...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/v/tegea-wp/sqxv-tegea-spartas-stubborn-neighbor.mp3 0:06 4 full Tegea: Poets, Mythical Kings, and a Politician from Kerasitsa https://qualla.com/tegea/ Photo credit Timeheritage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tegea produced people worth noting across two and a half millennia. Aristarchus of Tegea wrote tragedies in the 5th century BC. Anyte of Tegea, a poet of the 3rd century BC, wrote some of the finest epigrams in the Greek Anthology — her work on animals and children and death has ...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/v/tegea-wp/sqxv-tegea-poets-mythical-kings-and-a-politician-from-kerasit.mp3 0:06 5 full Tegea: What Outlasted Everything Else https://qualla.com/tegea/ Photo credit Timeheritage, CC BY-SA 4.0. When the geographer Strabo was writing in the 1st century BC, he noted that Tegea was the only Arcadian town that remained continuously inhabited. Its neighbors had emptied, declined, or been deliberately destroyed. Tegea persisted. In the Roman period it retained civic life. The...

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