Tenea is an ancient city and a former municipality in
Corinthia,
Peloponnese,
Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality
Corinth, of which it is a municipal unit. The seat of the municipality was in
Chiliomodi. Ancient Tenea was established approximately 15 kilometres SE of
Corinth and 20 kilometres NE of
Mycenae shortly after the
Trojan War. It is believed that the first inhabitants were Trojans prisoners of war to whom
Agamemnon permitted to build their own town. Hence the name Tenea resembles that of
Tenedos, their home-town. Tenea and
Rome, according to the
Aeneid of
Virgil, are two historical cities known to be associated with Trojan ancestry following the Trojan War. Corinthians and Teneans in 734 or 733 BC under the leadership of
Archias established the joint colony of
Syracuse in
Sicily, the homeland of
Archimedes.