Cynaetha

Cynaetha was an ancient Greek town in the northern part of Arcadia, on the slope of the Aroanian Mountains, described as the northernmost town of Arcadia and lying beyond Arcadia's usual boundary, with its valley descending toward the Corinthian Gulf. It was destroyed by the Aetolians and later rebuilt, and by the time of the traveler Pausanias it contained altars, a sanctuary of Dionysus, and a statue of the emperor Hadrian in its central square. The historian Polybius described the town's inhabitants as unusually harsh, attributing this to their neglect of music, and the city contributed a well-known statue of Zeus to Olympia. Its modern location is near present-day Kalavryta in Greece.