Pausanias Analysis

Chapter 4.26

• 4.26.1: Naupactus and Messenian slingers aid Athens at Sphacteria
• 4.26.2: Messenians expelled from Naupactus settle in Euesperitae (Libya) under Comon.
• 4.26.3: Dreams foretelling the revival of Messene.
• 4.26.4: Spartan defeat at Leuctra and its fated origin in Aristodemus.
• 4.26.5: Messenians recalled to the Peloponnese after the Battle of Leuctra.
• 4.26.6: Epaminondas receives a divine vision instructing him to restore Messenia.
• 4.26.7: Epiteles digs on Ithome, finds a bronze urn and rescues an imprisoned old woman.
• 4.26.8: Aristomenes' tin scroll of the rites of the Great Gods at Andania.