For another ancient Tegea near
Kissamos in the island of
Crete, see Tegea, Crete. Tegea was a settlement in ancient Greece, and it is also a municipality in modern
Arcadia,
Greece, with its seat in the village Stadio. Ancient Tegea was an important religious center of ancient Greece, containing the Temple of
Athena Alea ("Winged Athena", an archaic iconographic representation). The temenos was founded by Aleus,
Pausanias was informed. Votive bronzes at the site from the Geometric and Archaic periods take the forms of horses and deer; there are sealstones and
fibulae. In the Archaic period the nine villages that underlie Tegea banded together in a synoecism to form one city. Tegea was listed in Homer's
Catalogue of Ships as one of the cities that contributed ships and men for the
Achaean assault on Troy.
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