Messene
Americannoun
noun
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The most impactful of these measures was the foundation of Messene, an impregnable city for the Helots right on Sparta’s doorstep.
From Slate • Jan. 16, 2024
The next year they invaded the Peloponnese and liberated Messene from Spartan rule, depriving the Spartans of most of their helot labor there.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
In the seventh century BCE, Sparta conquered the land of Messene to its west and divided its farmland equally among the Spartiates.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Reluctantly, we now turned our backs upon Messene, with its renowned fortress of Ithome, the sacred Olympia, and the beautiful temple of Phigalia, and began our homeward journey.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 by Various
And having pursued his profession of sophist at Messene and at Larissa in Thessaly, and having amassed a considerable fortune, he returned to Athens.
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
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