Caryae or Karyai ( grc, Καρύαι), also known as Carya or Karya (Καρύα), was a town in the north of
ancient Arcadia
Arcadia ( el, Ἀρκαδία) is a region in the central Peloponnese. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas, and in Greek mythology it was the home of the gods Hermes and Pan. In European Renaissance arts, Arcadia was celebr ...
in the region of
Pheneatis near
Pheneus
Pheneus or Pheneos ( grc, Φένεος or Φενεός) was a town in the northeast of ancient Arcadia. Its territory, called Pheniatis (ἡ Φενεατική or ἡ Φενεᾶτις or η Φενική), was bounded on the north by that of the ...
. It should be distinguished from
the town of the same name located in the boundary zone between
Laconia and Arcadia. It is cited by
Pausanias Pausanias ( el, Παυσανίας) may refer to:
*Pausanias of Athens, lover of the poet Agathon and a character in Plato's ''Symposium''
*Pausanias the Regent, Spartan general and regent of the 5th century BC
* Pausanias of Sicily, physician of t ...
, who says that it was at the end of a ravine, on the road from
Orchomenus to Pheneus and from there was the plain of Pheneus. Five
stadia
Stadia may refer to:
* One of the plurals of stadium, along with "stadiums"
* The plural of stadion, an ancient Greek unit of distance, which equals to 600 Greek feet (''podes'').
* Stadia (Caria), a town of ancient Caria, now in Turkey
* Stadi ...
from Caryae were the mountains
Oryxis (Ὄρυξις), and
Sciathis (Σκίαθις).
Modern scholars place its site is located near the modern
Analipsis.
References
Populated places in ancient Arcadia
Former populated places in Greece
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