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Contents of the Fifteenth Book of Diodorus
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Here I think it not unsuitable,
since Messene has so often been captured and razed, to recapitulate its history1 from the beginning.
In ancient times the line of Neleus and Nestor2 held it down to Trojan
times; then Orestes, Agamemnon's son, and his descendants down to the return of the
Heracleidae3; following
which Cresphontes4 received Messene as his portion and his line ruled it for a
time; but later when Cresphontes' descendants had lost the kingship, the Lacedaemonians became
masters of it.
1 A brief account of the early history of Messene and Sparta is to be found in Holm, The History of Greece, 1.193-201. See also Wade-Gery, Cambridge Ancient History, 3.537-539, 548, 557-560.
2 Chieftains of Pylos on the coast. Cp. Book 4.68.6; and Pausanias, 4.3.1.
3 The so-called children of Heracles who formed the second wave of Dorian invasion in the Peloponnese (cp. Book 4.57 f).
4 A Heraclid who favoured the early inhabitants of Messene and was slain by the Dorians. He was introduced with his son Aepytus as a hero by Epameinondas according to Paus. 4.27.6. See Strabo 8.4.7.
Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.
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