Ambleside Online: Philopoemen

Philopoemen (Phila-PEE-men) lived from 253 to 184 B.C. (Plutarch says 183 B.C.), during the last days of ancient Greece, when Rome was flourishing but the Greek city-states had lost much of their power. Philopoemen's home was Megalopolis, which means "big city," similar to "Metropolis." Megalopolis was located in Arcadia, which is in the Peloponnese--the southern part of Greece that looks almost like a large island. North spells the name of the people who lived there "Megalipolitans."