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Updated: July 16, 2025
Lycosura was walled by the Pelasgians between four and five centuries prior to the introduction of the Cyclopean masonry in the building of the city of Tiryns. Sir William Gell maintains the possibility of tracing the walls of Lycosura near the place now called Surias To Kastro.
Latterly, this among the Greeks, though a common, was not an invariable, restraint; but more on this hereafter. Hobhouse's Travels, Letter 23. It is by no means probable that this city, despite its fortress, was walled like Lycosura. At least Strabo assigns Boeotia to the government of Cecrops.
By the strong and exaggerating expression of Pausanias quoted in the text, we must suppose, not that he considered Lycosura the first town of the earth, but the first walled and fortified city. The sons of Lycaon were great builders of cities, and in their time rapid strides in civilization appear by tradition to have been made in the Peloponnesus.
This may have been the reason of an ancient Greek maxim, attributed to Pythagoras, which forbade people to wear rings. Nobody might enter the ancient Arcadian sanctuary of the Mistress at Lycosura with a ring on his or her finger. Persons who consulted the oracle of Faunus had to be chaste, to eat no flesh, and to wear no rings.
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