Tegea

right|thumb|Heracles with the infant Telephus and deer, mid second century AD. Paris, [[Louvre MA 75.]]

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Tegea (; ) was a settlement in ancient Arcadia, and it is also a former municipality in Arcadia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the Tripoli municipality, of which it is a municipal unit with an area of 118.350 km2. It is near the modern villages of Alea and Episkopi.

In Greek mythology, Aleus (or Aleos) () was the king of Arcadia, eponym of Alea, and founder of the cult of Athena Alea. He was the grandson of Arcas. His daughter Auge was the mother of the hero Telephus, by Heracles. Aleus's sons Amphidamas and Cepheus, and his grandson Ancaeus were Argonauts. Ancaeus was killed by the Calydonian boar.

son of Aleus in Greek mythology

mythical character

ancient temple in Greece

In Greek mythology, Echemus (; , Ekhemos) was the Tegean king of Arcadia who succeeded Lycurgus.

ancient Greek writer

museum in Arcadia, Greece

In Greek mythology, Tegeates (Ancient Greek: Τεγεάτης) was an Arcadian prince as son of King Lycaon, and the reputed eponymous founder and of Tegea.

Ancient Greek mythological epithet

daughter of Phegeus in Greek mythology