Arcadia, Greece

University of Arizona
Thirty-Ninth Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Tripolis
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Field Seasons

Project
Overview

Team Members

Area Map

Sanctuary
Plan

Photographs

Literary
References

Lykaion Games

Lectures
and Exhibits

Press
Clippings

Bibliography

Sponsors

Links

• Burkert, W. (tr. Peter Bing). 1983. "Lykaia and Lykaion." In Homo Necans: The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth, Berkeley, pp. 84-93. (Original German publication: Berlin, 1972.) (Available as a 1.12mb .pdf)

• Cook, A.B. 1914. Zeus, vol.1, Cambridge, pp. 63-88. (Available as a 4mb .pdf)

• Coulton, J.J. 1976. The Architectural Development of the Greek Stoa, Oxford, pp. 80 and 252.

• Derechanê, Eugenias. 1997. To Oros Lykaio kai oi Archaioi Arkades, Deuterê Ekdosê, Athênai.
  

• Frazer, J.G. 1913. Pausanias's Description of Greece, vol. 4, London, pp. 381-386. (Available in .pdf: 237kb text and 1mb notes)

• Jost, M. 1985. Sanctuaries et cults d'Arcadie. Paris.

• ----. 1994. "The Distribution of Sanctuaries in Civic Space in Arkadia." In S.E. Alcock and R. Osborne (eds.), Placing the Gods, Oxford, pp. 217-30.

• ----. 1996. "Arcadian cults and myths." In S. Hornblower and A. Spawforth (eds.), The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd ed., Oxford, p. 139. (Available as 436kb .pdf)

• ----. 1999. "Les schémas de peuplement de l'arcadie aux époques archaïque et classique." In T.H. Nielsen and J. Roy (eds.), Defining Ancient Arkadia, Acts of the Copenhagen Polis Center, vol. 6., Copenhagen, pp. 192-247.

• ----. 2002. "À propos des sacrifices humains dans le sanctuaire de Zeus du mont Lycée." In Robin Hägg (ed.), Peloponnesian Sanctuaries and Cults: Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium at the Swedish Institute at Athens, 11-13 June 1994, pp. 183-6.

• ----. 2005. "Bêtes, hommes et dieux dans la religion arcadienne." In Østby 2005, pp. 93-104.

• Hiller von Gaertringen, F. (ed.). 1913. IG V:2. Inscriptiones Arcadiae. Berlin.

• Kavvadias, P. 1891. Fouilles d'Epidaure I, Athens, p. 78, no. 240.

• Klee, Th. 1918. Zur Geschichte der gymnischen Agone au griechischen Feste, Leipzig-Berlin (Repr. Ares, Chicago, 1980), passim.

• Kontopoulos, K. 1898. Praktika, p. 17-8.

• Kourouniotis, K. 1903. "." Praktika, pp. 50-2.

• ----. 1904a. "." Praktika, pp. 32-4.

• ----. 1904b. "." ArchEph, col. 153-214. (English translation available for download as 1.3mb .pdf)

• ----. 1905. "." ArchEph, pp. 161-78.

• ----. 1905. Congrès d'Athènes. pp. 255-6.

• ----. 1909. "." Praktika, pp. 185-200.

• Lewy & H. Roscher. 1892. "Schattenlosigkeit des Zeus-Abaton auf dem Lykaion." Neue Jahrbücher für Philologie und Paedogogik 145, pp. 701-709, 863.

• E. Østby (ed.). 2005. Ancient Arcadia: Papers from the Third International Seminar on Ancient Arcadia, Held at the Norwegian Institute at Athens, 7-10 May 2002, Athens.

• Potamianou, Konstantinou. 2005. To Lukaion Oros kata tên Diadromê tôn Aiônôn, Ekdosis tou Syllogou tôn Apantachou Kotuliôn, Athênai.
  

• Petrides, A. 1878. (Archaia polis, Parnassos) II, pp. 636-643.

• Romano, D.G. 1981. "The Stadia of the Peloponnesos." Ph.D. diss. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), Ann Arbor, pp. 172-177.

• ----. 1997. "Topographical and Architectual Survey of the Sanctuary of Zeus on Mt. Lykaion, Arcadia." AJA 101, p. 374.

• ----. 2005. "A New Topographical and Architectural Survey of The Sanctuary of Zeus at Mt. Lykaion." In Østby 2005, pp. 381-396. (available as a 2.7 mb .pdf)
  
  
• ----, M. E. Voyatzis and A. Panagiotopoulou. 2007. "Excavations at the Sanctuary of Zeus on Mt. Lykaion," Poster Session, Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, San Diego, January 5, 2007. (available as a 650k .pdf)

• Sinanou, Excavations at Megalopolis. pp. 139ff., no. xxvi.

• Voyatzis, M.E. 1999. "The Role of Temple Building in Consolidating Arkadian Communities." In T.H. Nielsen and J. Roy (eds.), Defining Ancient Arkadia, Acts of the Copenhagen Polis Center, vol. 6., Copenhagen, pp. 130-168.

• Zolotnikova, O. 2005. "The Cult of Zeus Lykaios." In Østby 2005, pp. 105-119.

Early Travelers

• Beulé, C.E. 1875. Études sur le Péloponèse, 2^nd ed. Paris, pp. 105ff.

• Blouet, A. 1831. Expédition scientifique de Morée, vol. 2, Paris, plate 33.

• Bursian, C. 1872. Geographie von Griechenland II, Leipzig, p. 233.

• Curtius, E. 1851. Peloponnesos, vol. 1, Gotha, plate 7.

• Gell, W. 1817. Itinerary of Morea, London, pp. 106-108.

• Leake, W.M. 1830. Travels in the Morea II, London, pp. 313ff.

• Philippson, A. 1892. der Peloponnes, Berlin, p. 330.

• Puillon-Boblaye, E. 1835. Recherches geographiques sus les ruins de la Moree, Paris, p.162.

• Ross, L. 1841. Reisen im Peloponnes, Berlin, pp. 91ff.