Megalopolis, founded by Epaminondas after the battle of Leuctra (371 B.C.), and made the capital of Arcadia, stood in the valley of the Helisson. Plundered and mostly destroyed by the Spartans in 222 B.C., it was the birthplace of Philopœmen and Polybius. Here the British school at Athens conducted excavations in 1892-93.
Megalopolis
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 122
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