Qualla: Teuthis https://qualla.com/teuthis en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:40:35 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/t/teuthis-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Teuthis https://qualla.com/teuthis Teuthis: Introduction https://qualla.com/teuthis/ Photo credit C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0. The story begins at Aulis, where the Greek fleet was gathering for the voyage to Troy. Among the contingents assembled there was one from the Arcadian city of Teuthis, led by their king of the same name. But King Teuthis quarreled with Agamemnon — and then, in a fit of rage, wounded the goddess Athena herself. His men did not sail for Troy. They turned around and went home to Arcadia. The city they returned to was later abandoned, absorbed in 371 BCE into the new city of Megalopolis when Arcadian communities consolidated against the Spartans. Pausanias, traveling through the region in the 2nd century CE, found only a village where the city had been. He described its temples and recorded the legend. And then Teuthis more or less disappeared from history — except that no one has been able to agree, for two hundred years of scholarship, on exactly where it was.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/t/teuthis-wp/sqxt-teuthis-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Teuthis: The City That Stayed Home https://qualla.com/teuthis/ Photo credit C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0. According to Pausanias, Teuthis was one of three Arcadian cities — along with Theisoa and Methydrium — that originally belonged to the territory of Orchomenus. Their citizens chose to relocate and join the founding of Megalopolis in 371 BCE, seeking safety in numbers against Spar...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/t/teuthis-wp/sqxt-teuthis-the-city-that-stayed-home.mp3 0:06 2 full Teuthis: A Disagreement Among Scholars https://qualla.com/teuthis/ Photo credit C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0. When 19th-century European travelers began crisscrossing the Peloponnese with copies of Pausanias as their guide, Teuthis presented a puzzle. Pausanias placed the city bordering the district of Theisoa, north of the ancient city of Gortys, somewhere in the mountains of northern A...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/t/teuthis-wp/sqxt-teuthis-a-disagreement-among-scholars.mp3 0:06 3 full Teuthis: Reading Pausanias Carefully https://qualla.com/teuthis/ Photo credit C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0. The key passage in Pausanias is brief. Traveling from Gortys northward, he writes that "bordering town to Theisoa is Teuthis, which was formerly a city." The word "formerly" tells us something: even by the 2nd century CE, Teuthis had declined to a village. What the passage does n...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/x/t/teuthis-wp/sqxt-teuthis-reading-pausanias-carefully.mp3 0:06 4 full Teuthis: A Name That Survived https://qualla.com/teuthis/ Photo credit C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1834, when the newly independent Greek state was reorganizing its local administration after centuries of Ottoman rule, the village closest to the medieval castle of Akova was formally declared the "Municipality of Teuthis" — Dimos Teuthydos in Greek. The name was revived as a...

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