A city and district on the Peloponnesian Peninsula.
Araethyrea and Aoris were the children of Aras. Both were experienced hunters and brave warriors. Araethyrea died first, and Aoris, in memory of his sister, changed the name of the land to Araethyrea. Before the celebration of the mysteries of Demeter, goddess of the hunt, the people look at the tombs of Araethyrea and Aoris and call them to witness the libations.
At the time of the geographer Strabo (first century BCE), Araethyrea was renamed Phlius.
During the Trojan War, Agamemnon, commander-in-chief of the Achaian (Achaean) army, mustered troops from Araithyrea (Araethyrea), Aigialos (Aegialus), Aigion (Aegium), Gonoessa, Helike (Helice), Hyperesia, Kleonai (Cleonae), Korinth (Corinth), Mycenae (Mycenae), Orneiai (Orneiae), Pellene, and Sikyon (Sicyon).
Latitude North, Longitude East
37.8445, 22.6465
| References: Homer, Iliad book 2, line 571 Pausanias, Description of Greece book 2, 12.5 Strabo, Geography book 8.6.24 Pliny the Elder, Natural History book 4.13 Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautika book 1, line 115 |