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]

References

1. 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.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Ladoceia". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.