Teuthis (Ancient Greek: Τεύθις, modern: Tefthida) was an ancient Arcadian city in the location of modern Dimitsana. In Greek mythology, a king of this city also bore the name Teuthis.
According to Pausanias, Teuthis was an old city of the city-state of Theisoa in which with the location that was part of Parrhasia. The city featured the temple of Athena, Aphrodite and Artemis. Its residents participated in the Trojan War along with other Arcadians under Teuthis or Ornytus (Όρvυτoς). King Teuthis when he made it to Aulis fought with Agamemnon and decided to return home with his army. in which appeared the goddess Athena in a form of Melas and tried to dissuade him, but he would not change his mind; he was outraged and hit the goddess, whom he was taking for Melas, in the thigh with a spear. He then did return home but not much later, he dreamt of Athena with a wound in her thigh; the goddess punished him with an incurable headache and struck Arcadia with famine. Later, the city residents visited the oracle of Dodona and accordingly built the statue of Athena with a bandage on the thigh as an appeasement. People of Teuthis had settled even in Megalopolis.[1]
Today over the ancient city built the town of Dimitsana, it founded an ancient acropolis and had excavated spliting with the entire city with many ancient buildings.[2]