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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Meteora cannot be Ithome; more probably the ruins of Kastraki.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried
The Spartans reduce Ithome, and finish the first Messenian war.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 2 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried
Those who possessed Tricca, and hilly Ithome, and those who possessed Œchalia, the city of Œchalian Eurytus; Podalirius and Machaon, two excellent physicians, 133 both sons of Æsculapius, led these.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois
It must be known that the Lacedaemonians had an old oracle from Delphi, to the effect that they should let go the suppliant of Zeus at Ithome.
From The History of the Peloponnesian War by Crawley, Richard
A great many of the Helots joined them, and they made their fortified hill of Ithome very strong.
From Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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