Gell, William: The itinerary of Greece: With a commentary on Pausanias and Strabo and an account of the monuments of antiquity at present existing in that country (London, 1810)

ARGOS TO MANTINEA. 87

ARGOS TO MANTINEA.

The road from Argos to Mantinea is not the same as that which
leads to Tegea, but commences at the gate of Argos called Deiras.
In this road is a temple with a double entrance, one toward the east,
and the other toward the west. Proceeding thence, when you have
crossed the torrent called Charadrus, you come to the town called
CEnoe.

Above CEnoe is Mount Artemisium, on the summit of which is the
temple of Diana. In this mountain are certainly the sources of the
river Inachus. Pausanias, Book 2, Chap. 25.

The route over the mountain anciently known by the name of
Artemisium, and which lying to the west of Argos, separates Argolis
from Arcadia, having little in itself interesting, and being from the
badness of the road not the accustomed track, has not frequently been
traversed by the strangers who have visited the country. The dis-
tance from Mantinea to Argos seems to be much less than that from
Argos to Tripolizza. Quitting the plain of Mantinea, about fifteen
minutes from the ruins at Palaiopolis, the road ascends a branch of
Mount Artemisium, from which is a fine view looking backward to
the west of Mount Maenala. The road proceeds across a small plain,
in which are the traces of an ancient paved road. On the east side of