Messene
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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
Polycaon invaded Messene, then peopled only by villages, called it Messene after the name of his wife, and built cities therein.
From The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great by Sir Isaac Newton
Dicæarchus of Messene, a contemporary of Aristotle, wrote on "Constitutions" among other things.
From The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh
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