The historians' history of the world in twenty-five volumes, volume 03
CHAPTER VII
THE MESSENIAN WARS OF SPARTA (_ca._ 764-580 B.C.) 143
First Messenian War, 144. The futile sacrifice of the daughter of Aristodemus, 146. The hero Aristomenes and the Second Messenian War, 147. The poet Tyrtæus, 149.