Messene Redeemed
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title:
Messene Redeemed
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F. L. Lucas's Messene Redeemed (1940) is a verse drama or long poem, based on Pausanias, about the struggle for independence of ancient Messene against Sparta. As well as narrating Messenian history from earliest times to the defeat of Sparta at Leuctra and the return of the exiles, it dramatizes two episodes in play-form: one from the First Messenian War – the "honour killing" of his daughter Laodice by Aristodemus at Ithome, and one from the end of the Second – the last hours of Eira. Some rev
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1940 poem by F. L. Lucas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messene_Redeemed
date created:
2018-12-12T11:23:29Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T13:58:33Z
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