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Contents of the Fifteenth Book of Diodorus
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After this, at the death of the Lacedaemonian
king Teleclus,1 the Messenians were defeated in a war by the Lacedaemonians.
This war is said to have lasted twenty years, for the Lacedaemonians had taken an oath not to
return to Sparta unless they should have captured Messene. Then it was that the children called
partheniae2 were born and founded the city of
Tarentum. Later, however, while the Messenians were in slavery to the Lacedaemonians,
Aristomenes3 persuaded the Messenians
to revolt from the Spartans, and he inflicted many defeats upon the Spartans at the time when
the poet Tyrtaeus4
was given by the Athenians as a leader to Sparta.
1 A king of the Agid line. First Messenian War, 743-723 B.C. See Paus. 3.2.6; Paus. 4.4.2, 31.3 and Strabo 6.3.3.
2 From the union of Spartan "maidens" (hence παρθένιαι) with men left behind at Sparta while the bulk of the Spartiatae were fighting in Messene. They settled Tarentum 708 B.C. See Strabo 6.3-4.
3 Messenian hero of the Second Messenian War, 685-668 B.C.
4 Fragments of his marching songs and his poem on good government (Εὐνομία) are collected in Edmunds, Elegy and Iambus, 1.58 ff., L.C.L. See Book 8.27.2. Schmid-Stählin, Gr. Litt.-Gesch. 1.1.358 ff., doubt if a poet came out of Athens or Sparta at this period but think it quite possible that Tyrtaeus came from Miletus (cp. Suidas, Lexicon, s.v. Λάκων ἢ Μιλήσιος) along with other poets that came to Sparta from the more forward regions of Asia Minor and the islands. For other notices of his life see Edmunds, ibid. 50-58.
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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