Tegeates
Son of Lycaon and eponym of the district; in his day the Tegeans still lived in eight country parishes, and his tomb — with that of his wife Maera — stood at Tegea.1
Apheidas
Son of Arcas; Tegea and the adjoining land fell to him as his lot, so poets call the city the lot of Apheidas, and a ninth parish — the Apheidantes — was added in his reign.2
Aleus
Son of Apheidas; founder of the city proper, he built the old sanctuary of Athena Alea and made Tegea the capital of his kingdom.3
Lycurgus
Eldest son of Aleus; succeeded to the Tegean throne, outlived his sons Ancaeus and Epochus, and reached extreme old age before the kingship passed to the Cepheid line.4
Echemus
Son of Aeropus, son of Cepheus, son of Aleus; Tegean king who slew Hyllus in single combat and turned back the first Heraclid return — his tomb and duel relief stood at Tegea beside the house of Aleus.5
Agapenor
Son of Ancaeus, son of Lycurgus; king after Echemus who led the Arcadians — Tegea among their towns — to Troy, then was storm-driven to Cyprus and never returned.6
Hippothous
Son of Cercyon of the Stymphalian house; when Agapenor did not come home from Troy the kingdom devolved on him, and he moved the Arcadian capital from Tegea to Trapezus — closing Tegea's run as royal seat.7
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HER SKY
a mini-galaxy of 23 dwellers
MYTHS SET HERE
2 tales walk these walls
ON THE MAP
in Arcadia — Peloponnese
Coordinates: Pleiades gazetteer, CC BY · place 570795