Cynaetha

Cynaetha (Ancient Greek: Κύναιθα) was a city-state in ancient Arcadia. The northernmost town of Arcadia, it bordered on the territories of Cleitor and Pheneus. It was located near present Kalavryta.^[1] It was located 40 stades (6 km) from Lousoi.^[2]

It was destroyed by the Aetolians in the Social War (220–217 BC), but it was rebuilt afterwards.^[1] When Pausanias visited the city it had a sanctuary of Dionysus and a statue of emperor Hadrian. The Cynaetheans gave to Olympia the statue of Zeus which held a thunder in his hand. There was a spring near Cynaetha named Alyssus (Άλυσσος), which was to cure from rabies.^[2]

References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1  Smith, William, ed. (1854). "Cynaetha". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography 1. London: John Murray. p. 725. 
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8.19