Aristodemus of Messenia
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Aristodemus of Messenia
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Aristodemus was a man of ancient Messenia, who was one of the chief Messenian heroes in the First Messenian War. In the sixth year of that war the Messenians consulted the oracle at Delphi known as the Pythia, and the ambassador Tisis brought back the answer that the preservation of the Messenian state demanded that a virgin girl of the house of the Aepytids should be sacrificed to the gods of the lower world. When the daughter of Lyciscus was drawn by lot, the seer Epebolus declared that she wa
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