Tritaea (Achaea)

Tritaea or Tritaia (Ancient Greek: Τριταία)[1] was a polis (city-state)[2] of Achaea, and the most inland of the 12 Achaean cities, was distant 120 stadia from Pharae.

According Pausanias, Tritaea's foundation was said to be due to either: Celbidas, who came from Cumae; or Melanippus, a son of Ares and Triteia, herself a daughter of Triton and priestess of Athena, and that Melanippus named the town after his mother.

[3] It was one of the four cities that took the lead in reviving the Achaean League during the 124th Olympiad (c. 280 BCE).

[5] Its territory was annexed to Patrae by Augustus, when he made the latter city a colony after the Battle of Actium.

Highlights of Pausanias's visit in the 2nd century included a white marble tomb with paintings by Nicias in the vicinity of the city.