Arcadians

Arcadians Arcadians, aboriginal inhabitants of Peloponnese

• Paus. 5.1.1, 2
• formerly called Pelasgians: Paus. 8.4.1, and Azanians: Paus. 8.42.6
• an inland people: Paus. 8.1.1, 3
• their confederacy: Paus. 6.12.8
• live on acorns: Paus. 8.1.6, Paus. 8.42.6
• wear wolfskins and bearskins: Paus. 4.11.3
• partial to square images: Paus. 8.48.6
• their foreign wars: Paus. 8.6.1-3
• army collected by Herakles: Apollod. 2.7.1
• robbed of their cattle by a satyr: Apollod. 2.1.1
• join Herakles in his attack on Oechalia: Apollod. 2.7.7
• help the Dioscuri to capture Athens: Apollod. E.1.22
• cross to Asia with Telephus, 1. 4. 6
• go to Troy in borrowed ships: Paus. 8.1.3, Paus. 8.5.2
• their muster for the Trojan war: Apollod. E.3.11
• catalogue of A. in Homer: Paus. 2.12.3
• side with Messenians against Lacedaemonians: Paus. 4.10.1, 7, Paus. 4.11.1, 2, Paus. 4.14.8, Paus. 4.15.7, Paus. 4.22.2, Paus. 8.5.10, Paus. 8.6.1
• number of A. sent to Thermopylae: Paus. 10.20.1
• defeated by Lacedaemonians at Dipaea: Paus. 3.11.7
• hold Olympic games: Paus. 6.4.2, Paus. 6.8.3, Paus. 6.22.3
• invades Elis: Paus. 6.20.4ff.
• tomb of A. at Olympia: Paus. 6.20.6
• adhere to Achaean League: Paus. 4.29.7, Paus. 8.6.3
• defeated by Romans at Chaeronea: Paus. 7.15.5ff.
• side with Antony against Augustus: Paus. 8.8.12
• Common Hearth of: Paus. 8.53.9