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The frontier between
Before the battle which the Thebans fought with the Lacedaemonians at Leuctra, and the foundation of the present city of
he shows that the Messenians were a tribe and not a city by the following:—
For Messenian men carried away sheep from
Hom. Od. 21.18
He is still more clear when speaking about the bow of Iphitus:—
They met one another in
Hom. Od. 21.15By the dwelling of Ortilochus he meant the city of Pherae in
in the dwelling of Ortilochus.
They came to Pherae to the house of Diocleus,
Hom. Od. 3.488
son of Ortilochus.
The first rulers then in this country were Polycaon, the son of
But the mysteries of the Great Goddesses were raised to greater honor many years later than Caucon by Lycus, the son of Pandion, an oak-wood, where he purified the celebrants, being still called Lycus' wood. That there is a wood in this land so called is stated by Rhianus the Cretan:—
By rugged Elaeum above Lycus' wood.
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That this Lycus was the son of Pandion is made clear by the lines on the statue of Methapus, who made certain improvements in the mysteries. Methapus was an Athenian by birth, an expert in the mysteries and founder of all kinds of rites. It was he who established the mysteries of the Cabiri at
I sanctified houses of Hermes and paths of holy Demeter and Kore her firstborn, where they say that
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