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Thyraeum

Θυραῖον

Thyraeum (Θυραῖον: Eth. Θυραῖος), a town of Arcadia in the district Cynuria, said to have been founded by Thyraeus, a son of Lycaon. It is placed by Leake at Palamári. (Paus. 8.3.3, 35.7; Steph. B. sub voce Leake, Peloponnesiaca, p. 240.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.