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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
This inscription shows that Caucon who came to
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4.2.1
As I was extremely anxious to learn what children were born to Polycaon by Some time later, as no descendant of Polycaon survived (in my opinion his house lasted for five generations, but no more), they summoned Perieres, the son of Aeolus, as king. To him, the Messenians say, came Melaneus, a good archer and considered for this reason to be a son of Apollo; Perieres assigned to him as a dwelling a part of the country now called the Carnasium, but which then received the name
and the epic Naupactia
, and in addition to these all the genealogies of Cinaethon and Asius. However, they made no reference to this matter, although I know that the Great Eoeae
says that Polycaon, the son of Butes, married Euaichme, the daughter of Hyllus, son of Heracles, but it omits all reference to the husband of
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