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Ithome

[ ih-thoh-mee ]

noun

  1. Mount, a mountain in SW Greece, in SW Peloponnesus. 2,630 feet (802 meters).
  2. in ancient geography, a fortress of Messenia on Mount Ithome.


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All went well as long as the food lasted, but the time came when the Messenians in Ithome had nothing to eat.

By the “two horns” he meant Ithome and the Acrocorinthus, and by518 the “ox” the Peloponnese.

The people of Tricce, Ithome, and chalia, under the sons of Asclepius.

We ascended Ithome and visited the massive ruins of Messene the same day.

At any rate, Ithome was the fortress in which Aristodemos made the last stand against Sparta in the first war.

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