Messenia
Americannoun
noun
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As they say in Messenia, a perfect dinner calls for three things: good friends, old wine, and always fresh EVOO.
From Salon • Jan. 19, 2025
A pasticcio, recycling music from Vivaldi's earlier operas and those of his contemporaries, L'Oracolo in Messenia was first performed in 1738, and revised four years later.
From The Guardian • Dec. 13, 2012
Photograph: Pascal Guyot/AFP/Getty Images First performed in Venice in 1732, L'Oracolo in Messenia is a pasticcio – a work assembled from existing music, not all of it, in this instance, Vivaldi's own.
From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 2012
Sparta conquered the neighboring region of Messenia and took over the land.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
The two met in Messenia at Ortilokhos’ table, on the day Odysseus claimed a debt owed by that realm— sheep stolen by Messenians out of Ithaka in their long ships, three hundred head, and herdsmen.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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