ABSTRACT
So far we have noted Arthurian material in the Ancient World directly attributable to the materials surrounding the name Arkas/Arktouros, with their epicentre in Arcadia. It is now time to look at a rather different series of texts which seem to be looking at the same migratory legends, but from a different angle, and located in another place. We can start with an arresting sentence of a minor Greek historian:
and [King Ardus] numbered the Lydian army (he was the greatest of knights ( ππτης πλειστ ς)), and found, they say, thirty thousand men.
