Ithome

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.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

Lacedaemonians being engaged in a war with the rebels in Ithome, the Thasians in the third year of the siege obtained terms from the

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

Lacedaemonians, ought not to forget that at the time of the great panic at Sparta, after the earthquake, caused by the secession of the Helots to Ithome, we sent the third part of our citizens to assist you.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

The Lacedaemonians, meanwhile, finding the war against the rebels in Ithome likely to last, invoked the aid of their allies, and especially of the Athenians, who came in some force under the command of Cimon.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

Spartans at Ithome follow old Delphic oracle, 1.103.2

THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

Helots on Mount Ithome allowed to leave Peloponnesus, 1.103.1

THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

Now the five contests were these: one and the first of them was this at Plataia; and after this the contest at Tegea, which took place with the Tegeans and the Argives; then that at Dipaieis against all the Arcadians except the Mantineians; after that the contest with the Messenians at Ithome; 1393 and last of all that which took place at Tanagra against the Athenians and Argives.

The History of Herodotus Herodotus 2003

These “Messenians” now lived at Naupactus (Map 3.76), where Athens had settled them after they surrendered to Sparta at Ithome and were forced to leave the Peloponnesus (see 1.103.1-3).

THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

Some time after this, the Lacedaemonians sent a second time to desire succors of the Athenians against the Messenians and Helots, who had seized upon Ithome.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

In this expedition, they united all Arcadia into one body, and, expelling the Spartans that inhabited Messenia, they called back the old Messenians, and established them in Ithome in one body; — and, returning through Cenchreae, they dispersed the Athenians, who designed to set upon them in the straits, and hinder their march.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003