Athena Alea

[3] A statue of Athena Alea existed on the road from Sparta to Therapne.

[5] Other known cults of Alea, alongside Athena, are also found in other nearby locations, such as Mantinea and in Sparta.

[9] Instead, he proposes to look towards the account of the second century CE geographer Pausanias who provides more details on the issue of the synchronization of the two goddesses.

Pausanias provides two hints to the survival of the goddess Alea in his Description of Greece: first, when discussing Athena in the Peloponnese, he states that the local practice of calling her Alea has prevailed in Tegea;[10] second, he mentions a local festival called the Aleaia,[11] indicating a festival in the honour of Alea rather than Athena.

This comes from a scholium to Pindar' Nemean Ode 9,[13] providing further evidence of Alea's ability to spread to regions near Tegea.