Mantinea

[ man-tuh-nee-uh ]

noun

1. an ancient city in S Greece, in Arcadia: battles 362 b.c., 223 b.c.

Mantinea

/ ˌmæntɪˈneɪə /

noun

1. (in ancient Greece) a city in E Arcadia; site of several battles

Example Sentences

At Mantinea has been found a basis whereon stood a group of Latona and her two children, Apollo and Artemis, made by Praxiteles.

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And in addition to this, the exercises of single combat were first invented in Mantinea, Demeas being the original author of the invention.

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O my dear Socrates," continued the stranger of Mantinea, "that which can give value to this life is the spectacle of the eternal beauty....

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The fountain in the temple of Erechtheus at Athens was supplied by a spring of salt water, and a similar spring supplied that in the temple of Poseidon Hippios at Mantinea.

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The nucleus was to consist in three states, Argos, Elis and Mantinea, which had been visited by Themistocles just after the Persian wars and had set up democracies on the Athenian model.

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