place
Arcadia
The central region of the Peloponnese; its fields were ravaged by the Erymanthian boar and haunted by the Parrhasian hind of Hercules's labors.
Reading notes
- Agamemnon §864 Arcadian fields
Arcadia in the Peloponnese, ravaged by the Erymanthian boar Hercules took.
- Hercules on Oeta §1 the Arcadian towns
Arcadia, the mountainous heart of the Peloponnese; the Nemean lion and other beasts ranged its borders.
- Hercules on Oeta §860 the horror of Arcadia
Arcadia, scene of several labors (the Erymanthian boar, the Stymphalian birds); Deianira begs to be destroyed like its monsters.
- Natural Questions §3.25.1 Arcadia
The mountainous central region of the Peloponnese in Greece; near its town of Nonacris rose the deadly stream the Greeks called the Styx.