Pausanias Analysis

Chapter 4.9

• 4.9.1: Messenians withdraw from the countryside to Mount Ithome.
• 4.9.2: Ithome: a high, naturally strong town fortified as a refuge.
• 4.9.3: Tisis, Delphic envoy ambushed but released after a divine voice
• 4.9.4: Lot-chosen sacrifice of an Aepytid maiden to the underworld gods.
• 4.9.5: Lykiskos flees to Sparta with a falsely claimed daughter
• 4.9.6: Aristodemos offers his daughter in sacrifice to save Messenia.
• 4.9.7: Messenian suitor disputes Aristodemus' authority over his betrothed daughter
• 4.9.8: Aristodemos kills his daughter to prove she bore no child
• 4.9.9: Euphaes persuades the Messenians to accept the maiden's death.
• 4.9.10: Aepytidae accept the king's counsel and celebrate with sacrifices and a festival