Ithome
Americannoun
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Mount, a mountain in SW Greece, in SW Peloponnesus. 2,630 feet (802 meters).
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in ancient geography, a fortress of Messenia on Mount Ithome.
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Shortly afterwards, in the twentieth year of the war, the Messenians abandoned Ithome, which the Lacedaemonians razed to the ground, and the whole country became subject to Sparta.
From A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest by Sir William Smith
Battle of Ithome, and siege of the fortress, to which the Spartans summon the allies.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
Ithome was built high up on a rock, so steep that the Spartan soldiers could not climb it, and so high that they could not even shoot their arrows into the town.
From The Story of the Greeks by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber
Some time after this, the Lacedaemonians sent a second time to desire succor of the Athenians against the Messenians and Helots, who had seized upon Ithome.
From The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls by John S. (John Stuart) White
We ascended Ithome and visited the massive ruins of Messene the same day.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
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