Aroanios (Arcadia: river above Psophis)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Oct 14, 2025 12:50 PM
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History
Three rivers of Arcadia bearing this name are mentioned in ancient sources. According to Pausanias, this Aroanios rises in the ancient Erymanthos mountains and flows southward to join other tributaries of the Erymanthos river at ancient Psophis. BAtlas labels the modern Nousaitiko, which matches Pausanias' description.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570113
37.9167681862, 21.8655869576
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM Location: modern Nousaitiko potami (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Ἀροάνιος (Aroanios: Ancient Greek, unspecified date range)
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river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 B2 Aroanios fl.
BAtlDir has clearly mixed Pausanias citations and possibly other information between the various Arcadian rivers with this name. The modern name/location glosses therein cannot be correlated with modern digital gazetteers. This record has been adjusted for Pausanias citations after Hirschfeld in RE and by correlating BAtlas placement with Pausanias' descriptions.
G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Aroanios (Arcadia: river above Psophis): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570113> [accessed: 17 November 2025]
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