Ladoceia

Not to be confused with Laodicea.

Ladoceia or Ladokeia (Ancient Greek: (τὰ Λαδόκεια), also known as Laodicium or Laodikion (Λαοδίκιον),[1] was a place in ancient Arcadia, in the district Maenalia, and, after the building of Megalopolis, a suburb of that city. It was situated upon the road from the latter to Pallantium and Tegea. Here a battle was fought between the Mantineians and Tegeatae, 423 BCE, and between the Achaeans and Spartan king Cleomenes III, 226 BCE.[2][3] Thucydides places it in the district of Oresthis.[1]

Its site is unlocated.[4]

  1. ^ a b Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 4.134.
  2. ^ Pausanias (1918). "44.1". Description of Greece. Vol. 8. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
  3. ^ Polybius. The Histories. Vol. 2.51, 2.55.
  4. ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.