Messene
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Messene, officially Ancient Messene, is a local community within the regional unit of Messenia in the region of Peloponnese.
View of the ancient Asclepeion.
The members of the scientific commission of the Morea Expedition in the stadium of ancient Messene in 1829 (detail of a lithograph by Prosper Baccuet)
The ancient Stadion
A watchtower in the circuit wall
Ithome
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Mount Ithome or Ithomi, previously Vourkano or Voulcano, is the northernmost of twin peaks in Messenia, Greece. Mount Ithome rises to about 800 metres, about 760 metres over Valyra, the seat of Ithomi
Messene
…perifereia) of Peloponnese. It is best known for the ruins of the large classical city-state of Ancient Messene. The site was founded in the Bronze Age as Ithome, an ancient city originally of Achaean Greeks which eventually came under the hegemony of the military state of Sparta with which it had a long struggle…
The twin peaks, Eva in the fore, Ithome in the rear. The view is from the southeast side of Eva looking at the New Monastery in the foreground. Most of the ruins are on the other side.
View of Mavromati from the classical ruins below.
The klepsydra, or spring catchment, in Mavromati. Messene was downslope. Ithome looms in the background.
The walls of Messene against a backdrop of Mount Ithome.