Later, Sparta used the Peace of Antalcidas (387 BC) as a pretext to break Mantineia into its constituent villages.

After the Spartan defeat at the end of the Theban–Spartan War, Mantineia re-formed into a single city.

[10] In 130 AD he visited the city and built a temple dedicated to his lover Antinous.

[11] Some decades later, probably few years before 166 AD,[12] Pausanias visited the area and described the ruins and remains of the city at the time in his 8th book.

It is also the name of a Protected designation of origin of Greek blanc de gris wine, made of the moschofilero grape traditionally grown in the region.

The valley consists of vineyards, potato and wheat farms, as well as other crops, and covers about half of the municipality.

The Mantineia Marble, dated to the 4th century BC and now exhibited at National Archaeological Museum of Athens, depicts the mythical contest between Apollo and Marsyas, with a Greek pandouris being played by a muse seated on a rock.

[17] For this committee to be selected, the people had to attend an Assembly of sorts, probably once a year, and there was also a Council,[18] like in other Greek democracies.

Officials included damiourgoi (a political role) as well as theoroi (a religious one) and polemarchoi (military).

[19] In 385 the Spartans forcibly suppressed the democracy, though it did have a brief revival in the 360s when Mantineia was part of the Arcadian League.

[29] Laments are sung often by widows, only women, and include positive thoughts about the deceased in the province of Mantinea.

[29] There is not much of a recording of laments since it is believed to bring death to a loved one of the person who sang it without a reason.

[24] With the tradition of dance songs sang by the lead dancer in Chrisovitsi, there is no evidence of existence of any folk instruments.